India

First edition of India by Hiroh Kikai. First impression. Medium format hardback in slipcase, in near fine condition. Some very minor shelf wear to the slipcase only.

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India presents photographs taken in India (and to a much lesser extent Bangladesh) over a period totalling rather more than a year and ranging from 1982 to 1990. It won high praise from the critic Kazuo Nishii who commented that the India of Kikai's work seems perpetually overcast, and that in their ambiguity his photographs seem to benefit from the work done in the Asakusa portrait series. The book won Kikai the 1993 Society of Photography Award.