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Artist Book. The artist/photographer's fourth collection. One of the most beautiful photographic Artist Books of the year 2005. Limited Edition of 2500 copies. Another stupendous production by Masao Yamamoto and Reiko Nakajima: Oversize-volume format. The book is poster size at 14 X 16 inches. Maroon silk cloth boards with titles embossed on cover, as issued. Photographs by Masao Yamamoto. There is no text. As in his previous Artist Books, the photographs are presented in exactly the same size as they would be in a museum exhibition and splendidly orchestrated as a sequence of interrelated as well as discrete, self-contained images, in singles, pairs, and groups, as in a personal scrapbook. Printed on thick matte stock paper by Nazraeli Press to the very highest standards. In publisher's original shrinkwrap. In pristine-white DJ with black titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents photographs reproduced on 21 doublespreads, including a centerfold that opens to a stunning 52 x 16 inches. Masao Yamamoto's fourth series, which re-define the modern photographic Artist Book on several levels. As a material object that combines the artistic and tactile attributes of exquisite, classical, and one-of-a-kind Japanese book formats with the advantages of modern printing technology, "e", the scrapbook, is a superbly and beautifully realized continuation of "A Box of Ku" (the box), "Nakazora" (the scroll), and "Omizuao" (the pillow book).