Tokiwa Toyoko, Kiken na Adabana
Tokiwa Toyoko, Kiken na Adabana
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Tokiwa Toyoko. Kiken na adabana. (Giftige Blumen). Tokyo, Mikasa-shobô (1957). 8°. 248 S. mit Abb. auf Tafeln. OPbd. mit goldgepr. Rückentitel, illustr. Orig.-Schutzumschlag, Bauchbinde (″Obi“, belly band) u. Cellophan-Schutzumschlag. The History of Japanese Photography S. 217 u. 236 f. Lederman/Yatskevich, What they saw 144 f. – Erster Druck der ersten Ausgabe. – Wichtigste Veröffentlichung der bedeutenden japanischen Fotografin Tokiwa Toyoko (1928-2019). – Die Aufnahmen zeigen Straßenszenen, Prostituierte und amerikanische Marine-Soldaten im Rotlichtviertel von Yokohama. Der seltene Schutzumschlag zeigt auf der Vorderseite das Gesicht der Fotografin mit ihrer Canon-Kamera; im Objektiv ist ein Detail aus dem letzten Foto zu sehen. Der rote „Obi“ wirbt für 100 Fotografien. – T. Tokiwa „documents a vibrant community of women operating on the fringes of postwar Japanese society. The title references a traditional euphemism for sex workers, who held a partivular form of cultural cachet in Tokiwa’s hometown, the port city of Yokohama. While prostitution is a major subject in Kiken na adabana, the photobook more brodly cronicles the daily lives of working women – including nurses, shop clerks, teachers and performers – and as a result, demystifies sex work for what it really is: a job. … As one of the only female photographers active in Yokohama during this time, Tokiiwa uniquely experienced the challenges of working within a patriarchal environment. Despite her proffessional status as an observer, the photographer herself became an object of fascination and increased scrutiny amoung her peers. Tokiwa toys with this irony throuout Kiken na adabana – perhaps most significantly in the book cover, a self-portrait of the artist holding a camera. A smaller photgraph of a woman being forciby dragged by her male companion is superimposed in place of the Photographer’s lens. This image spotlights Tokiwa’s role as both a witness and active participant in the social upheaval of mid-century Japanese society“ (Rose Bishop in Lederman/Yatskevich). – „(This book) can be considered the strongest, most compassionate work by a female photographer of that era“ (Anne Tucker). – Schutzumschlag am Kapital mit kleiner Fehlstelle, Textbl. papierbedingt etwas gebräunt, sehr gutes Exemplar.
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