Spider’s Strategy

First Edition, 2001. 102 pages.

Book measures 11.25 x 9.125 inches. Silver paper-covered boards, in silver dust jacket. Includes original obi. Text by Arata Isozaki. 80 b&w photographs by Osamu Kanemura depicting “Tokyo as a city of constant collisions, confusions, and expansion. Ever present is a tangle of overhead wires, suggesting a spider web spreading throughout the city, or the connective tissues of an organic and unguided growth.”

“In Spider's Strategy, Kanemura has depicted a persuasive vision of the modern metropolis, and even of the metropolis to come. His personal Tokyo is the Blade Runner megalopolis come to life — yet another case of life closely imitating art.” (Parr, History of the Photobook Vol. II). 

Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Binding is tight. Obi shows light rubbing.