Tokyo Girls (German Edition) [first edition]

In his native Japan, in the trendy metropolis of Tokyo, Yasuji Watanabe ranks among the stars of the younger generation of photographers. Watanabe understands his models intuitively, and the girls in his pictures live out their erotic fantasies and obsessions in front of his camera. He captures the girls as they indulge in the pleasure of playing and in their lust and sexuality, which can express itself as pain, youth, bondage, loneliness, expectation, stimulation, melancholy, and submission. Though his work is in the tradition of master Nobuyoshi Araki, he has evolved his own unique erotic language of images. Hardbound, color. Text in English, German and French.