HOLBORN, Mark. Black Sun: The Eyes of Four. Roots and Innovation in Japanese Photography.

(New York, NY): Aperture, a division of Silver Mountain Foundation, 1986. First edition. Softcover. 28.7 by 24.5cm. 86 pages. An important and influential anthology of postwar Japanese photography, bringing together the work of four major figures: Eikoh Hosoe, Shomei Tomatsu, Masahisa Fukase, and Daido Moriyama. Conceived in conjunction with the landmark exhibition Black Sun: The Eyes of Four, organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, and the Arts Council of Great Britain. races the radical transformation of Japanese photography in the decades following the Second World War, juxtaposing Hosoe’s psychologically charged imagery, Tomatsu’s investigations of Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the American presence in Japan, Fukase’s celebrated photographs of crows, and Moriyama’s fragmented, confrontational vision of the modern city. The volume examines the tension between rapid Westernization and deeply rooted Japanese cultural traditions, linking photography to the wider postwar avant-garde. Issued as Aperture 102. A very good copy.