A World of Eiko Hosoe: Spherical Dualism of Photography Eikoh Hosoe

This is a photo book by Japanese photographer Eikoh Hosoe.

In 1959, Hosoe founded the photography collective Vivo with Tomatsu Shomei, Narahara Ikko, Kawada Kikuji, and others, and became active at the forefront of the photography world, producing a number of unique and highly narrative works, including his masterpiece Ordeal by Roses (1963), which featured novelist Yukio Mishima as his subject and was photographed at Mishima's home, and Kamaitachi (1969), which was shot in a rural area of Akita and featured the butoh dancer and founder of the butoh movement, Hijikata Tatsumi.

Furthermore, in 1974 he was involved in the establishment of the Terakoya-style photography school "WORKSHOP Photography School," and he also served as the first director of the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (K*MoPA), which opened in 1995 in Hokuto City, Yamanashi Prefecture, and devoted himself to nurturing the next generation of talent in the photography world.

This book is a new compilation of representative works selected from 11 collections of Hosoe's works.
It has been out of print since its first edition in 2006, but was republished for the first time in 18 years as part of a project launched to mark the 30th anniversary of the founding of publisher Seigensha.

(Works included)
"Man and Woman" (1961), "Ordeal by Roses" (1963), "Kamaitachi" (1969), "Embrace" (1971), "Taka-chan and Me" (1997), "Mother's Fool" (2004), "Hijikata Tatsumi Butoh Encyclopedia: Scabs and Caramel" (1989), "Butterfly Dream: Butoh Artist Kazuo Ohno" (2006), "Gaudi's Universe" (1984), "Fairy Tales" (2000), "Spring Books: Ukiyo-e Reproductions" (2004)