Murakami, Ryu — Michiko Kon: Still Lifes

New York, Aperture, 1997. Hardcover. A green casebound book. There is a dust jacket with the title in gray and in black down a gray-green spine. Unpaginated. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white images. "English edition of Japanese photographer Kon's first major release which represents more than ten of her 20 years of work. Sixty-four duotone and four-color reproductions, statements by the artist, a narrative by novelist Murakami, and an essay by art historian Ito illuminate the way in which she takes the classic tradition of the still-life photograph and gives it new life through the reanimation of object and body parts in new forms. VG/VG: Exlibrary book. Sticker on dust jacket at the base of the spine. Stamp on front pasted end page. Sticker on front free end page. Stamp on back free end page. Sticker and due date card on back pasted end page. Stamp on top text block.