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Seiji Kurata

A Tattooed Man: Ikebukuro, Rooftop of the Bungeiza Building from Flash Up

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April 3, 04:06 PM GMT

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Seiji Kurata

1945 - 2020

A Tattooed Man: Ikebukuro, Rooftop of the Bungeiza Building from Flash Up


mural-sized gelatin silver print, signed and editioned '2/5' in pencil on an Akio Nagasawa Gallery, Tokyo, label on the reverse, framed

image: 47½ by 35½ in. (120.7 by 90.2 cm.)

frame: 52 by 39¾ in. (132.1 by 101 cm.)

Executed in 1975, printed in 2018, this print is number 2 from a sold out edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs.

Flash Up: Street PhotoRandom Tokyo 1975-1979 (Tokyo, 1980), cover and pl. 92

Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume I (London, 2004), p. 306

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