Publisher/Dokument Press

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"Tokyo Tattoo 1970 (New Edition)" is a collection of works by American female photographer Martha Cooper. Cooper has been active in New York since the late 1960s, and has been sharply focusing her lens on urban culture and underground social phenomena. She is famous for her works such as "Subway Art" and "Hip Hop Files Photographs 1979-1984". This book is based on her experience of visiting Japan for the first time in 1969 and being deeply fascinated by Tokyo's traditional tattoo culture. Based on the work of tattoo artist Horibun, who has continued to preserve the technique of hand-carving, the book captures the determination of the tattooed person, the gestures of the craftsman, and even the ceremonial scenes of visiting shrines, conveying the tranquil and tense tattoo culture that is different from modern times. This book records the appearance of "Wabori", which was still almost unknown overseas, with a deep sense of distance and a delicate gaze, and is a masterpiece that has been highly praised as a valuable document where the city and faith, the body and symbols intersect. The first edition was a hardcover from 2011, and this is a new softcover edition published in 2025.