Hajime Sawatari - Nadia [Signed]

First edition. Ryuichi Kaneko and Ivan Vartanian in their reference work on Japanese Photobooks, “Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and 70s” provide an excellent critique of “Nadia”, “…in this work the nude becomes something close to the reader as opposed to a removed and unknowable beauty…the pursuit of photography here is self-fulfilling while it finds its ultimate subject in the nude form of a lover…” 90 black-and-white high quality gravure photos. Essay by Shoji Yamagishi (in English and Japanese). Letter written by Nadia, in Japanese.