WORKSHOP COLLECTIVE. Workshop 1-8. Tokyo: PhotoWorkShop, 1974-76. 2° (vols. 1-4: c.500 x 360mm) and 4° (vols. 5-8: 285 x 144mm). Illustrated throughout. Original stapled photo-illustrated wrappers (vols. 5-8), or folded broadside as issued (broadsides with short tears at folds, wrappers with some spotting and light soiling). Hosoe's signature in gold paint pen in issues 3-4.
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WORKSHOP COLLECTIVE. Workshop 1-8. Tokyo: PhotoWorkShop, 1974-76. 2° (vols. 1-4: c.500 x 360mm) and 4° (vols. 5-8: 285 x 144mm). Illustrated throughout. Original stapled photo-illustrated wrappers (vols. 5-8), or folded broadside as issued (broadsides with short tears at folds, wrappers with some spotting and light soiling). Hosoe's signature in gold paint pen in issues 3-4.

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WORKSHOP COLLECTIVE. Workshop 1-8. Tokyo: PhotoWorkShop, 1974-76. 2° (vols. 1-4: c.500 x 360mm) and 4° (vols. 5-8: 285 x 144mm). Illustrated throughout. Original stapled photo-illustrated wrappers (vols. 5-8), or folded broadside as issued (broadsides with short tears at folds, wrappers with some spotting and light soiling). Hosoe's signature in gold paint pen in issues 3-4.

A COMPLETE SET OF THIS RARE AND INFLUENTIAL PUBLICATION, two of the issues signed by co-founder Eikoh Hosoe. 'Probably the most important serial publication in the history of Japanese photography' (De Beaupré). Workshop was founded by Moriyama, Araki, Hosoe, Fukase, Tomatsu and Yokosuka, and includes contributions from all the guiding lights of contemporary Japanese photography: Ken Domon, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Kikuji Kawada, Jun Morinaga, Ikko Narahara, and many others. De Beaupré, Japon, pp.30-1. (8)