Benjo /Toilet
Yoshio Takase
Benjo /Toilet
Photographs: Yoshio Takase
Publisher: Fukusha Shudan Geribara 5
104 pages
Year: 1971
Comments: Softcover, 250 x 180 mm. First edition, 1971. Black & white photographs. Text in japanese. Included in The Photobook by Parr & Badger, vol.1, p.196. Minor wear. In very good condition.
Benjo/Toilet is one of the first publications of Geribara (litterally "geri" means "diarrhea" in japanese and "bara" "belly"), an avant-garde group of 5 artists which include Yoshio Takase, Ikeda Fukuo, Nobuyoshi Araki, Yaehata Koji & Morisawa Masmitsu. In this book, they make fun of common sense, for instance taking pictures of dirty toilets while it is common to think japanese toilets are clean. They also use absurd sentences, in a dada spirit, addressed to people : "Please let us touch your wonderful mask. Let us leak you. Geribara wants you to be kind to us even if it is not easy". Benjo is a joyfull cry of nonsense and a funny act of subculture.
more books tagged »Yoshio Takase« | >> see all
more books tagged »nobuyoshi araki« | >> see all
-
A Sentimental Journey (Original edition)
by Nobuyoshi Araki
Euro 3800 -
A-Nikki (A-Diary) (WITH OBI)
by Nobuyoshi Araki
sold -
Photo Theater: Tokyo Elegy
by Nobuyoshi Araki
sold -
Kako (The Past) (WITH OBI)
by Nobuyoshi Araki
sold -
Sentimental Journey
by Nobuyoshi Araki
sold -
Kyoto Hakujo (Love Labyrinth: Kyoto White Sentiment)(WITH OBI)
by Nobuyoshi Araki
sold
more books tagged »japanese« | >> see all
-
EVES
by Yoshihiro Tatsuki
sold -
North Point
by Hiroyasu Nakai
Euro 70 -
Shoji Ueda Polaroid 35m/m Photo Album
by Shoji Ueda
Euro 1600 -
Ju-ai : Daisan no Venus / Beast love: The Third Venus
by Yasuhiro Yoshioka
sold -
My Ektachrome (Signed)
by Koji Onaka
sold -
PLASTIC DELAY
by Fumitsugu Takedo
sold
more books tagged »subculture« | >> see all
-
La Promenade de König Immerlustik
by Gunter Rambow
sold -
Tsugi no yoru e / On to the next night (Signed)
by Yusuke Yamatani
Euro 150 -
Sex a gogo
by Sanne Sannes
sold -
I Wanna be me
by Collective
sold -
Where is '69 Shinjuku Kaminari Zoku
by Fumiaki Fukada
sold -
Doris
by Gunter Rambow
sold
more books tagged »parr & badger« | >> see all
-
Particulars (ONE OF THE 25 COPIES WITH A PRINT)
by David Goldblatt
sold -
Shashin yo sayonara / Bye Bye Photography (SIGNED)
by Daido Moriyama
sold -
Am Boden/ By the Ground + Die Dämmerung/ At Dusk (Signed)
by Boris Mikhailov
sold -
London
by Axel Hütte
sold -
Drum - Et sted i Irland
by Krass Clement
sold -
Macedonia
by Cuny Janssen
sold
Books from the Virtual Bookshelf josefchladek.com