Monogusa Shui

First edition of Monogusa Shui by Issei Suda. first impression. Medium format hardback in fine condition. Artist stamped and numbered 017/600.

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Tokyo-based gallery and publisher Akio Nagasawa offers the complete edition of Issei Suda’s series “Monogusa Shui.”
Originally serialized in Nippon Camera magazine between 1980 and 1982 (with 13 additional works featured in a 1983 exhibition), “Monogusa Shui” contributed to Issei Suda winning the prestigious Photographic Society of Japan Annual Award in 1983. Shot in back alleys, parks, plazas, hidden spots and streets (mostly) near his own Tokyo neighborhood, these photographs exemplify Issei Suda’s genius as a photographer, his flâneur-like visual poetry and ability to bring out another, mysterious layer hidden somewhere within reality.