IPY GIRL IPY
- Regular price
- $140.00 USD
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- Sale price
- $140.00 USD
Published by: Heibonsha, Tokyo, 1970 (First Edition)
Softcover, 140 pages
22.0 × 28.5 cm
Language: Japanese
Condition: Very Good. minor cover wear and slight toning of inner pages, overall clean and intact.
Ipy Girl Ipy is one of Tad Wakamatsu’s landmark photobooks, capturing a surreal, free-spirited journey across America and beyond, centered on actress and model Haruko Wanibuchi. Documenting encounters with bikers, hippies, New York street life, and more intimate, studio-based nudes (some printed on translucent paper), the book unfolds as a fragmented diary of transience, desire, and outsider reality.
Across its pages Wakamatsu moves from public spaces to private gestures from road trip subcultures to introspective nude portraiture blending documentary urgency with a dreamlike, almost cinematic ambiguity. The result is a bold, immersive portrait of a time and a state of mind, where identity, space, and desire slip and merge across continents and subcultures. A rare and essential work for collectors of Japanese photography and 1970s underground culture.
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Intermission exists in the space between documentation and devotion an ongoing archive of cultural fragments that refuse to vanish. Each title within our portfolio is selected not for trend, but for tension: between what was meant to disappear and what insists on remaining.
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.
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.
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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