{"product_id":"espana-grand-tarde-fiesta-vaya-con-dios-ikko-narahara-kyuryudo-1969","title":"ESPAÑA GRAND TARDE, FIESTA, VAYA CON DIOS — Ikko Narahara — Kyuryudo — 1969","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFew photobooks made by an outsider have entered Spain as deeply as Ikko Narahara’s extraordinary 1969 work. Travelling through the country during his European years, Narahara found a society in which Catholic ritual, bullfighting, religious devotion, festivals, poverty and an intense public life existed beside the beginnings of rapid social change. Rather than constructing a detached documentary survey, he photographed Spain as a sequence of physical and psychological encounters: bodies compressed in crowds, the choreography and mortality of the bullring, young people consumed by fiesta, and the quieter presence of people encountered in towns and villages.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book unfolds in three movements—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGrand Tarde\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFiesta\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVaya con Dios\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFiesta\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e begins with San Fermín in Pamplona before moving south to the Feria de Abril in Seville and summer celebrations in Málaga; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVaya con Dios\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e turns towards towns, villages and their inhabitants, while \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGrand Tarde\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e confronts bullfighting as a ritual in which spectacle, violence, beauty and death become inseparable. Narahara was photographing a country already beginning to change, and many of these images carry an awareness that the cultures and ways of life before his camera might not remain intact. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat makes the book exceptional, however, is the way this experience was translated into print. Mitsuo Katsui’s radical design refuses the neutrality of the conventional photographic monograph: dense black-and-white reproductions, fold-outs, saturated colour, typography and abrupt changes of rhythm turn the book into a constructed visual experience. A separate 44-page volume, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Promised Journey\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, places Narahara’s own commentary alongside Japanese and English text, making explicit that this was not simply reportage from Spain but the record of a journey through which the photographer was also questioning his own position and photographic language. The result belongs simultaneously to Spain and to the extraordinary reinvention of the Japanese photobook during the 1960s—a book in which travel, subjective photography and graphic design become inseparable. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTitle:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e スペイン 偉大なる午後 \/ España Grand Tarde, Fiesta, Vaya con Dios\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eArtist \/ Author:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Ikko Narahara (奈良原一高)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDate:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 30 October 1969\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e First edition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMedium \/ Materials:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Two-volume publication: illustrated hardcover photobook and separate softcover commentary volume \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Promised Journey\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, issued in illustrated slipcase\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 32 cm height\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePages:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 239 pp. + 44 pp.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePhotography \/ Commentary:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Ikko Narahara\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Japanese \/ English\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTranslation:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Mitsu Sawano\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBook Design:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Mitsuo Katsui, assisted by Akira Mabuchi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePrinting:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. \/ Hirohashi Seihan Co., Ltd.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBinding:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Yamada Taiseido Co., Ltd.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaper:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Mitsubishi Seishi Co., Ltd.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Kyuryudo Co., Ltd.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePlace of Publication:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Tokyo, Japan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Second-hand. 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