Gekisha: Joyū-tachi / Dramatic Shooting: Actresses — Nobuyoshi Araki — Byakuya Shobō — 1978 — First Edition

Gekisha: Joyū-tachi is an early collaboration between Nobuyoshi Araki and editor Akira Suei, bringing photographs of more than twenty women together with writing that moves between fact and invention. The idea of the actress extends beyond a professional role: the book considers how people perform for a camera and how a photographer constructs a story around that encounter. Originally connected to magazine publication, its portraits and nudes draw attention to the unstable boundary between photographic evidence and narrative fabrication. Published by Byakuya Shobō in 1978, it anticipates the interplay of images, fictional accounts and editorial provocation developed in Araki’s later pseudo-reportage books. The colophon in this copy identifies the first edition, issued on 1 November 1978.

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Photographer: Nobuyoshi Araki
Publisher: Byakuya Shobō, Tokyo
Published: 1 November 1978
Edition: First edition
Japanese title: 劇写「女優たち」
Editorial collaboration: Akira Suei
Pages: 251
Dimensions: Approximately 210 × 258 mm
Binding: Softcover with dust jacket
Language: Japanese
ISBN: No ISBN identified; printed publication code 0072-0011-1183