Nagisa Hotel (Signed)

Hajime Sawatari
Nagisa Hotel (Signed)

Photographs: Hajime Sawatari

Publisher: Super Labo

32 pages

Pictures: 20

Year: 2015

Comments: Softcover (hand-seawn). 280 x 216 mm. Doubletone Offset / Fullcolor Offset. First edition, 2015. Limited edition of 800 copies. Choice between 2 different front cover,each covers are limited of 400 copies. One corner slightly bumped.

I took these photographs around 1963 and 1964 at Nagisa Hotel in Zushi, Nagisa Hotel in Shinagawa, and Chigasaki Beach. The subject was my girlfriend, her initials Y.O. Back then I worked at a design firm in Ginza, Tokyo, and I photographed them in seven or eight sessions we had on my days off. It was my hope to have them published in the monthly magazine Camera Mainichi, but Shoji Yamagishi, the editor, did not approve. It has been 50 years since then and my wish has finally been fulfilled.