KOHEI YOSHIYUKI (* 1946) ‘Document Kouen’ (Park Document), Tokyo: Seven Sha, 1980

A near mint copy in dust jacket with the publisher's original red obi, as issued, first edition, 78 black and white photographs, 25 x 21 cm To make the book, Yoshiyuki trawled the Shinjuku and Yoyogi parks in Tokyo, both notorious for nocturnal sexual activity, and photographed the ‘goings-on’ with infrared flash, which enabled him to get images in the dark without the flash being visible. … [Document Park is] a brilliant piece of social documentation, catching perfectly the loneliness, sadness and desperation that so often accompany sexual or human relationships in a big, hard metropolis like Tokyo. (Parr & Badger) LITERATURE Parr & Badger, The Photobook: a History, vol. 2, pp. 296-297.