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Setanta Book Store/Collections/Wakaranai (I don't know)
The photography book cover Wakaranai (I don't know) by Masafumi Sanai with a photo of a tailgate light with the words "MARK II' and text in japanese.
An open book spread laid flat on a dark gray surface, showing two white pages with small black Japanese text.
An open book, showing two printed pages. The left page contains a photograph of a pair of fuzzy mauve slippers on a dark textured background with Japanese text, and the right page shows a green-toned abstract or atmospheric photo with a bright white light.
An open book, showing two printed pages with photographs of snow-covered cars and Japanese text along the left margin.
An open book, showing blank beige pages.
An open book, showing two printed pages side by side: the left page features green succulent leaves, and the right page shows a close-up of a bubbling dark liquid with an orange-brown center.
Wakaranai (I don't know)
A hand holds a slim white book or booklet above a larger printed cover featuring five illustrated packs of SevenStars Charcoal Filters arranged on a textured brown surface. The smaller item shows the title 'SevenStars' and the larger cover includes the same branding and a white side panel.
Setanta Book Store/Collections/Wakaranai (I don't know)

by Masafumi Sanai

Wakaranai (I don't know)

1998

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£225.00
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First edition of Wakaranai (I don't know) by Masafumi Sanai (1998)

First impression 

Large format hardback in near fine condition 

General wear to boards

Some foxing to end papers, please note there is also a superficial mark to top of one of the front end papers, please consult pictures

Some minor toning to extremities of pages 

Binding firm

Text in Japanese

About

"Masafumi Sanai is representative of a youthful generation of Japanese photo-diarists. He is a prolific maker of photobooks, of which this is the first and probably most successful. Whereas his female equivalent is probably Hiromix who shows girls and girl things, Sanai shows boys and boy things, most notably cars. Wakaranai (I Don't Know) could be seen as a loose companion piece to Takashi Homma's Tokyo Suburbia, since it documents the same world of outer-city urban landscapes, portraits of contemporaries, and interiors of vacuous malls and apartments on the fringes of Tokyo, shot in the color snapshot diary-mode made famous by the American, Nan Goldin, who has made an enormous impact on Japanese photography." --Parr & Badger, The A History, Vol II.

Publisher: Korinsha Press

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