HYSTERIC GLAMOUR — HYSTERIC NO. 5: UNTITLED (1994)
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Publisher: Hysteric Glamour, Tokyo
Year: 1994
Publisher: Nobuhiko Kitamura
Art Direction: Osamu Wataya
Photographs: Osamu Wataya, Eiichi Kashimura, Yoichi Sone, Ikko Narahara, Koichi Tokunaga
Dimensions: 36.51 × 31.12 cm
Edition: First Edition
Language: Japanese / English
Format: Large-format softcover
Pages: 120
Condition: Fine — exceptionally well preserved, with only minor imperfections to the cover due to age, including a small visible detail at the upper right corner.
Hysteric No. 5: Untitled is the fifth issue of the photography series published by Tokyo label Hysteric Glamour, issued in 1994 under its founder Nobuhiko Kitamura, with art direction by Osamu Wataya.
Rather than functioning as a conventional fashion catalogue, the series was conceived as an independent photographic publication, bringing together distinct approaches to image-making within a single, large-format volume.
This issue features five photographers across different generations: Ikko Narahara, a major figure in postwar Japanese photography and co-founder of the VIVO collective, alongside Eiichi Kashimura, Yoichi Sone, Koichi Tokunaga, and Wataya himself. Their recurring presence throughout the early Hysteric issues gives the series a distinctive continuity, closer to an evolving photographic archive than a conventional magazine.
Before Hysteric Glamour became internationally associated with its later publications featuring photographers such as Daido Moriyama and Terry Richardson, these early numbered issues established the label’s parallel identity as a publisher and supporter of serious contemporary photography.
Produced in limited quantities and never reissued, the early Hysteric issues are increasingly difficult to find, particularly complete and in well-preserved condition. This fifth issue represents an important period in the development of Hysteric Glamour’s publishing practice and its engagement with Japanese photography.
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We work with objects that speak quietly but persistently publications, recordings, and editions that define the undercurrents of art, sound, and design. Together they form a living record of marginal brilliance, a collection that privileges significance over scale.
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Every Intermission title is handled as an artifact. We believe that preservation is an act of reverence one that begins the moment you open a cover or unspool a tape.
To experience a piece, do so slowly. Allow the air to touch the paper, let light fall softly over each page. Avoid excess pressure; handle edges rather than surfaces. Each mark, fold, or patina is part of its passage through time evidence of care rather than decay.
We encourage collectors to engage not only with the content, but with the gesture of preservation itself: a quiet commitment to memory.
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