SIGNED Numbered Bruce Gilden Go Limited Edition Japan Homeless HC

Description: Bruce Gilden Go Limited Edition Signed Bruce Gilden London: Trebruk/ Magnum, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. No dust jacket as issued. Limited edition. 3000 numbered copies. This is number 0367. SIGNED by Bruce Gilden and numbered at the back. Inscribed and dated. Bright red cloth, title and dragon illustration blind stamped on front cover (the book is read from right to left). Endpapers and interview are white lettering over red. Full page b&w photographs. A gritty study of Japanese street life by a talented Magnum photographer. Scarce. Martin Parr, The Photobook, Vol 2, page 310. Very good. Minor soiling to boards. A few tiny white specks in the dragon. Light edgewear. Contents clean and bright. Solid binding. 9 x 13 ¼ inches. Arguing that many of the people in Japan wear a 'mask of uniformity', Bruce Gilden wanted to dig deeper to find persons who were both physical and intense and who, in one way or another, stood out from the others. What he found, presented here in his collection "Go", was an assortment of homeless men and women, day workers, Yakuza (members of traditional organized crime groups in Japan, which is said to be the largest organized crime phenomenon in the world), right-wing nationalists and bosozoku - a subculture where groups of young men and women share a common interest in designing and driving modified cars and motorcycles. He presents another side to the traditional and often stereotypical view of Japanese society, one where not everything is high technology and poverty is rife. All images have been shot in Tokyo and Osaka, and reveal how violence and hardship weave through many aspects of daily existence in these two sprawling cities. Overall fantastic, highly collectible condition, especially with the original signature of the artist.

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