The Baku swims in dreams | Takashi Hara | Sokyusha 2023 [SIGNED] Satomi Nihongi The dustjacket has scratches

The dustjacket has scratches

60 loose bound photographs plus title and colphon pages in a slipcased clamshell box

It was not so much Daido Moriyama’s idea of “scratching” something

Tis copy in NF/VG conditions

and—based on pre-session email interviews about why and where they wanted to be photographed—let their feelings and wishes guide him in the shaping of a single portrait

The Baku swims in dreams | Takashi Hara | Sokyusha 2023 [SIGNED] Satomi Nihongi The dustjacket has scratchesOblong 4to, hardcover. Signed. The Baku is a mythological creature that feeds on nightmares, said to be created using the pieces left over from the creation of other creatures. Legend warns that if you let the Baku feed on your nightmares too often, it will feed on your hopes and dreams too. Baku is also the name used to indicate the tapir. As this duality suggests, the photographs collected in this volume propose an ordinary surface reality in which