Kenro Izu: Light Over Ancient Angkor, Platinum Prints

Language: English

Published by Friends Without A Border, New York, 1997

0965357414 / 9780965357418

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1996/1997. Second edition (originally published in 1996). Soft cover. Photographically illustrated wrappers; no dust jacket as issued. Photographs by Kenro Izu. Essays (in English and Japanese) by Eikoh Hosoe, Tadao Umesao and Helen Ibbitson Jessup. Includes a biography, selected solo exhibition history, selected collections, an essay on the platinum print process, an annotated map of 13th-century Angkor Monuments and informational text about the Angkor Clinic for Children and the Friends Without A Border organizations. Designed by Katsuji Asada. Unpaginated (96 pp.), with 65 tritone plates beautifully printed in Italy from separations by Sele Offset, Torino. 9-7/8 x 9-7/8 inches. Published on the occasion of the 1996 exhibition "Kenro Izu: Light Over Ancient Angkor" at the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, sponsored by the Consulate of Cambodia in Japan. Fine (slight shelf wear to the bottom of the text block). The Friends Without A Border, founded by Kenro Izu in 1995, is a non-profit organization with the sole objective of saving the lives of Asian children. As stated in the book, "An estimated eight million land mines have been planted in Cambodia since the 1940s. Forty thousand civilians [many of them children] have been injured or killed.Also, due to insufficient medical facilities, there are victims of pediatric diseases which are obsolete in Japan and most Western countries. Friends Without A Border is building the Angkor Clinic for Children to provide much needed free aid to these injured and sick children." Izu raises money for the Angkor clinic through the sale of his photographs of the ancient Angkor monument, "which has profoundly touched his heart.".…

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Title
Kenro Izu: Light Over Ancient Angkor, Platinum Prints
Author
IZU, Kenro, HOSOE, Eikoh, UMESAO, Tadao, JESSUP, Helen Ibbitson
Publisher
Friends Without A Border, New York
Publication year
1997
Condition
Fine
Dust jacket
No dust jacket as issued
Binding
Soft cover
Language
English
ISBN 10
0965357414
ISBN 13
9780965357418
Illustrator
Photos
Edition
2nd Edition.
Seller catalogs
Non-Silver Processes, Tokyo/Japan, Worship

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