Flash Up: Street Random Tokyo 1975-1979. - Seiji Kurata The conversations in UNLICENSED investigate

The conversations in UNLICENSED investigate bootlegging’s creative and critical potential

And what would it mean to reject the notion that a house should be a commodity

Swiss designer Celestino Piatti (1922-2007) endowed the covers of books published by Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag dtv with a singular look

In the way we arrange our sofas

Engaging obliquely with the legacies of surrealism

Flash Up: Street Random Tokyo 1975-1979. - Seiji Kurata The conversations in UNLICENSED investigateKURATA, Seiji. Flash Up: Street Random Tokyo 1975 1979. First edition. 4to. 190pp with b&w plates in printed wraps with obi. Text in Japanese. Tokyo: Byaku Shobo, 1980. Wrapper a little shrunk at the top corner. A very good copy. Seiji Kurata's first photo book and an incredible work in the history of Japanese photography. Here Kurata seeks out the dark side of Tokyo that unflinchingly documents yakuza, youth gangs, gambling dens and street people.