Senchimentaru na Tabi [Sentimental Journey].
Tokyo, [self-published, 1971].
Initially, Araki had intended for Sentimental Journey to contain no text. However, after publication and and at the request of the bookshop Kinokuniya, he wrote a short introduction that rejects the falseness and insincerity of much photography and compares his work to the popular post-war literary form of the 'I' novel. This is the first of a loose trilogy of privately printed books, followed by Okinawa: Sentimental Journey Continued (1971) and Tokyo (1973).
First edition; 4to (238 x 238 mm, 91/4 x 9 1/4 in); black-and-white photographs; side-stapled with photo-illustrated card covers, white and black, light wear and soiling, faint stains to rear, foot bumped, a very good copy without the leaf of green paper subsequently added shortly after publication at a bookshop's request, though this can be supplied in facsimile if requested; [108]pp.
Roth, Provoke pp11-12; Roth, The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century pp206-7; Parr/Badger, The Photobook: A History, I p295; Roth, The Open Book: A History of the Photographic Book from 1878 to the Present pp268-9; 802 photo books from the Auer collection p527; Araki: Self, Life, Death p694; A Book of Araki Books! 1970-2005 pp38-45; Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and '70s pp108-115; Japanese Photobooks 1912-1990 pp406-407.
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