Les Fleurs du Mal - Réhabilitation par mon sexe

Akira Suzuki
Les Fleurs du Mal - Réhabilitation par mon sexe

Photographs: Akira Suzuki

Publisher: Nobel Syobo

114 pages

Year: 1968

Comments: Hardcover with title stamped in gilt in a black board slipcase with gilt stamping. First edition, 1968. Text in japanese with poem in french by Charles Baudelaire. A very scarce and collectible copy. Minor edge wear and small scratchto slipcase. Copy in excellent condition with an impressive gravure printing !

Amazing and mysterious japanese photo book from the late 1960's Japanese underground, a lysergic pictorial inspired by Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal. It features a cast of female characters, predominantly nude, in warped, theatrical poses, deployed in collaged images with graphic embellishments.

The work also featured in cult 1968 Japanese horror film Blind Beast, directed by Yasuzo Masumura