Kenro Izu: Light Over Ancient Angkor - Platinum Prints Photography Book, Second Edition 1997 (Hardcover, Near Fine) - Perfect for Art Collectors & Photography Enthusiasts

Hosoe, Eikoh, et al. New York: Friends Without A Border, 1997.

Japanese & English, Second Edition, Near Fine, 4to, 10" x 10". Unpaginated. 

ISBN: 0965357422

White pictorial paper over board, featuring Kenro Izu's 1993 photograph "Angkor #26, Ta Prohm" to front panel, black lettering to front panel and spine, light bump to tips, some soiling to front and back panels, otherwise, clean, crisp, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout. Unpaginated. Includes Foreword by Eikoh Hosoe, Preface by Kenro Izu, essays by Tadao Umesao and Helen Ibbitson Jessup, Plates, Kenro Izu Chronology, Platinum Prints, The Angkor & List of Major Monuments, and "About Angkor Clinic for Children" and "Friends Without A Border." Published on the occasion of an exhibition on the work of Japanese photographer, Kenro Izu (b.1949) at Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts from April 27 to September 29, 1996. From Eikoh Hosoe's Foreword: "Why had he been photographing stone ruins since 1979?...He told me, 'I feel that life's source can be found in stones that have existed for hundreds of millions of years. I sense the god presence in stones and I am naturally drawn to them'...But more than that, Izu's mind was on the local children who had lost legs by stepping on mines. Izu saw these children playing around his camera equipment and he began to wonder if something couldn't be done for them."