Kouhei, Yoshiyuki: Sekigai Kousen

First edition of Kouhei, Yoshiyuki: Sekigai Kousen 1992. Medium format softcover in very good condition. Some wear due to age. Water marks on the front and back cover. Please see photos for reference. 

About

Kohei Yoshiyuki, born 1946 is a Japanese photographer who attracted much attention in 1979 with his exhibition "Park" at the Komai Gallery, Tokyo. The black-and-white photographs were presented in a book published in 1980 that is "nominally a soft-core voyeur's manual", with photographs of people in sexual activities in Shinjuku and Yoyogi parks (both in Tokyo), mostly with unknown spectators around them. The photographs were taken with a 35 millimetre camera and infrared flashbulbs. Gerry Badger and others have commented on how the photographs raise questions about the boundaries between spectator, voyeur and participant.