Flash Up

"Street PhotoRandom Tokyo 1975-1979" by Seiji Kurata, Byakuya Shobo, Tokyo, 1980. First edition. 160 pages. 21.1 x 29.6 cm. Condition: Excellent (with dust jacket and obi).

500€

Travel to Tokyo’s red light districts from Shinjuku and its hectic nightlife. Yakuza, Japanese bikers, prostitutes, shady businessmen, drug addicts, strippers, transvestites… Seiji Kurata takes pictures (with flash) for four years at random during his outings. the result is a masterpiece. Nearly 200 black and white photographs in which the reader finds himself completely drawn into a world of violence, sex and drunkenness. A book that has become over time one of the great classics of the photography book.