The Sketch of Kanto Area

First edition of The Sketch of Kanto Area by Issei Suda. First impression. Medium format hardback in new condition. Artist numbered and stamped. Number 156/600.

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Issei Suda’s “The Sketch of Kanto Area” is a series originally published in six issues of Asahi Camera magazine in 1983. This photobook includes every photograph from the series in order of appearance, separated into six chapters according to the six magazine issues in which they originally appeared. Because the photographs – snapshots and portraits taken in various Japanese towns in Suda’s signature style, imbuing the everyday with a sense of the mysterious, surreal or sublime – were not published or shown since their initial magazine publication, the series has remained largely unknown.