The Banquet - Books on Books No. 15

First Edition, 2012. 136 pages.

Book measures 7.25 x 9.75 inches. Black cloth with color photograph of cover of the original publication affixed to front cover. This is the limited edition version from the Errata Editions Books on Books series. 

First published in Japan in 1993, Nobuyoshi Araki’s The Banquet (Shokuji) offers a moving tribute to the photographer’s late wife, Yoko, through a photo-diary of the food they shared together in the last months of her life. The book is composed of three related sections: commercial color photographs of meals shot by Araki from 1985 onwards, using a ring flash and a macro lens; a (written) food diary; and black-and-white photographs taken at home, using only available light, a series Araki began after doctors told his wife she had only a month to live. This deeply personal diary of loss is here reprinted in its entirety along with an essay by Ivan Vartanian.

Near Fine. A clean copy in tight binding.