Books on Books # 6 : Toshi-e (Towards the City)

Yutaka Takanashi
Books on Books # 6 : Toshi-e (Towards the City)

Photographs: Yutaka Takanashi

Text: Gozo Yoshimasu, Gerry Badger & Jeffrey Ladd

Publisher: Errata

176 pages

Pictures: 120

Year: 2010

Comments: Hardcover under dust jacket, 250 x 185 mm. Duotone illustrations. Text in English. Very good copy. Slightly bumped at corners with some wears on jacket. Inside no defaults. Pictures on demand.

Yutaka Takanashi’s Toshi-e (Towards the City) is a landmark two-volume set of books from one one of the founders of the avant-garde Japanese magazine Provoke. Published in 1974 and considered the most luxurious of all of the Provoke era publications, its brooding, pessimistic tone describes the state of contemporary life in an unnamed city in Japan undergoing economic and industrial change. Books on Books 6 reproduces all one hundred sixteen black and white photographs that make up the two volumes. Photographer, writer and book historian Gerry Badger, contributes an essay called Image of the City - Yutaka Takanashi's Toshi-e.