Kohei Yoshiyuki: The Park
”Yoshiyuki’s cultishly popular work sits somewhere between Brassaï’s Parisians by night, Weegee’s infrared pictures of amorous moviegoers and Sophie Calle’s photographic explorations of surveillance. While seeming to cast a light on secret behavior, they reveal the yearning that exists in voyeurism, the melancholy in desire.”
—Rebecca Bengal, T The New York Times Style Magazine
Co-published with Yossi Milo
Photography by Kohei Yoshiyuki
Introduction by Yossi Milo
Text by Vince Aletti
Interview by Nobuyoshi Araki
Hardcover / 11 x 12.5 inches
71 images / 160 pages
(68 plates + 3 images of historic zines)
ISBN: 9781942185482
Limited edition of this book available HERE
For his notorious Park photos, taken by night in Tokyo’s Shinjuku, Yoyogi, and Aoyama parks during the 1970s, KOHEI YOSHIYUKI used a 35mm camera, infrared film and flash to capture a secret community of lovers and voyeurs of various ages and sexualities. His pictures document the people who gathered in these parks at night for clandestine trysts, as well as the many spectators lurking in the bushes who watched—and sometimes participated in—these couplings.
This newly designed, comprehensive edition of Kohei Yoshiyuki: The Park brings this collectible classic back into print and includes new images and documentary materials.
