Ikonta Story by Araki Nobuyoshi

A photo book by Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki.

This book features photographs taken with an Ikonta camera, a keepsake from Araki's father, who was a photography enthusiast. The design includes contact sheets of film taken from 1980 to February 1981, until the camera broke. Araki is known for editing his photographs in a sequence to create a personal novel-like style, but this is a masterpiece that proves that the flow of time and a story can be projected by simply arranging the photographs as they are, without editing.

"Last fall, for some reason, I felt the urge to take pictures with that dusty Ikonta, and I continued to take pictures with it until it broke down in February of this year. This is the Ikonta, but it is not simply the Ikonta of my photographic life from last fall to February of this year. It is the Ikonta story, starting from when my father used to take pictures with it." - Nobuyoshi Araki (excerpt from the end of the book)

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Title: The Ikonta Story
Artist: Nobuyoshi Araki
Byakuya Shobo, 1981
Hardcover with dust jacket
265 x 215 x 10 mm
Text in Japanese
First edition
¥11,000 -

Condition: Good / There is slight peeling on the inside cover, but it is in good condition for its age.