{"title":"AKAAKA","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFounded in Kyoto in 2006, AKAAKA has become one of the central publishers of contemporary Japanese photobooks. Darwin returns to AKAAKA for its sustained attention to photographic sequencing, regional histories, and authors working outside dominant institutional narratives. The catalogue connects figures such as Masahisa Fukase, Ryuichi Ishikawa, Yoshihiko Ueda, and younger generations whose work moves between personal archive, landscape, and social observation. A publisher where editing, printing, and book form remain inseparable from the image.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"aka-ana-antoine-d-agata-2017","title":"赤穴 (Aka Ana) — Antoine d'Agata, AKAAKA 2017","description":"\u003cp data-end=\"397\" data-start=\"79\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"240\" data-start=\"206\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"240\" data-start=\"206\"\u003e赤穴 (Aka Ana) — Antoine d'Agata\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"634\" data-start=\"242\"\u003eThis photobook by French photographer Antoine d’Agata, \u003cem data-end=\"306\" data-start=\"297\"\u003eAka Ana\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem data-end=\"318\" data-start=\"308\"\u003eRed Hole\u003c\/em\u003e), published in 2017 by Akaaka Art Publishing, is part of the Darwin Bookshop because it enters the erotic and existential void with unrelenting intensity. Shot in Japan over years of immersion in Tokyo’s underworld, the book documents not a place but a descent—into sex, fever, narcotics, and photographic collapse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1124\" data-start=\"636\"\u003eD’Agata's work in \u003cem data-end=\"663\" data-start=\"654\"\u003eAka Ana\u003c\/em\u003e fuses diaristic self-representation with performative and often collaborative acts of intimacy. Bodies blur, dissolve, burn under red light. The photographs are grainy, saturated, and immersive, often unreadable in a conventional sense—yet entirely legible in their physical and emotional charge. The cover itself is a veil: a naked figure partly obscured, with the title’s two kanji—赤 (red) and 穴 (hole)—cut directly into the surface like wounds or apertures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1535\" data-start=\"1126\"\u003eThis Japanese edition stands out for its production: heavy matte paper, rich inks, and the precise violence of the die-cut jacket. Signed by d’Agata in Arles, the book carries the trace of one of contemporary photography’s most transgressive presences. At Darwin, \u003cem data-end=\"1399\" data-start=\"1390\"\u003eAka Ana\u003c\/em\u003e is held as a core work in the photobook canon of embodied experience and radical exposure—where sex is no longer subject but condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1556\" data-start=\"1537\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"1556\" data-start=\"1537\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1955\" data-start=\"1558\"\u003eTitle: 赤穴 (Aka Ana)\u003cbr data-end=\"1580\" data-start=\"1577\"\u003eArtist \/ Author: Antoine d’Agata\u003cbr data-end=\"1615\" data-start=\"1612\"\u003eDate: 2017\u003cbr data-end=\"1628\" data-start=\"1625\"\u003eTechnique \/ Printing Method: Offset printing, die-cut cover\u003cbr data-end=\"1690\" data-start=\"1687\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Hardcover with printed dust jacket\u003cbr data-end=\"1747\" data-start=\"1744\"\u003eDimensions: approx. 22 × 28 cm\u003cbr data-end=\"1780\" data-start=\"1777\"\u003eLanguage: Japanese, English, French\u003cbr data-end=\"1818\" data-start=\"1815\"\u003ePages: Unpaginated\u003cbr data-end=\"1839\" data-start=\"1836\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor: Akaaka Art Publishing\u003cbr data-end=\"1883\" data-start=\"1880\"\u003eISBN: 978-4-86541-079-0\u003cbr data-end=\"1909\" data-start=\"1906\"\u003eSigned: Yes (signed in Arles)\u003cbr data-end=\"1941\" data-start=\"1938\"\u003eCondition: MINT\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AKAAKA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51777089831250,"sku":null,"price":70.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/MAISONSCLOSES_90e2f80b-f9c0-4c85-b11a-ebfc8a1873f9.jpg?v=1768063361"},{"product_id":"homo-ludens-masahisa-fukase-akaaka-2025","title":"HOMO LUDENS, Masahisa Fukase, AKAAKA, 2025","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"45\" data-end=\"608\"\u003eOne of the key works for understanding Masahisa Fukase before \u003cem data-start=\"107\" data-end=\"115\"\u003eRavens\u003c\/em\u003e. First published in 1971, this six-part sequence moves between intimacy, desire, loss, performance and mortality, tracing the emotional terrain that would define his later practice. Images of Yoko Wanibe, underground Shinjuku life, family relationships and personal memories unfold with striking psychological intensity. This faithful reprint restores the complete original book while rethinking its design, revealing the radical vision and autobiographical depth of Fukase’s debut photobook.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"610\" data-end=\"931\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"610\" data-end=\"629\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"629\" data-end=\"632\"\u003eTitle: HOMO LUDENS\u003cbr data-start=\"650\" data-end=\"653\"\u003eArtist \/ Author: Masahisa Fukase\u003cbr data-start=\"685\" data-end=\"688\"\u003eTexts: Nada Inada, Shoji Yamagishi\u003cbr data-start=\"722\" data-end=\"725\"\u003eDate: 2025\u003cbr data-start=\"735\" data-end=\"738\"\u003eEdition: Reprint edition of the 1971 original\u003cbr data-start=\"783\" data-end=\"786\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Hardcover photobook\u003cbr data-start=\"825\" data-end=\"828\"\u003ePages: 128\u003cbr data-start=\"838\" data-end=\"841\"\u003eLanguage: Japanese\u003cbr data-start=\"859\" data-end=\"862\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor: AKAAKA\u003cbr data-start=\"888\" data-end=\"891\"\u003eISBN: 978-4-86541-197-3\u003cbr data-start=\"914\" data-end=\"917\"\u003eCondition: New\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AKAAKA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53743349662034,"sku":null,"price":60.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/TODWEBB_copy_copy_1_a5c924d5-4c12-4f7a-be6d-c8335c7cb177.jpg?v=1781431826"}],"url":"https:\/\/thedarwin.es\/collections\/akaaka.oembed","provider":"DaRWIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}