Front cover of Tad Wakamatsu’s Ipy Girl Ipy (1970 first edition).
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Interior spread showing Harley biker scene from Ipy Girl Ipy, documenting 1970s subculture.
Black-and-white studio nude portrait of Haruko Wanibuchi featured in Ipy Girl Ipy.
Street photography in New York from Wakamatsu’s Ipy Girl Ipy photobook.
Mixed-media layout page from Ipy Girl Ipy, combining candid and staged imagery.
Final section depicting coastal village life — fishermen and locals — from Ipy Girl Ipy.
Street photography in New York from Wakamatsu’s Ipy Girl Ipy photobook culture.
Back cover of Ipy Girl Ipy by Wakamatsu — Japanese softcover photobook, Heibonsha.
Front cover of Tad Wakamatsu’s Ipy Girl Ipy (1970 first edition).
Interior spread showing Harley biker scene from Ipy Girl Ipy, documenting 1970s subculture.
Black-and-white studio nude portrait of Haruko Wanibuchi featured in Ipy Girl Ipy.
Street photography in New York from Wakamatsu’s Ipy Girl Ipy photobook.
Mixed-media layout page from Ipy Girl Ipy, combining candid and staged imagery.
Final section depicting coastal village life — fishermen and locals — from Ipy Girl Ipy.
Street photography in New York from Wakamatsu’s Ipy Girl Ipy photobook culture.
Back cover of Ipy Girl Ipy by Wakamatsu — Japanese softcover photobook, Heibonsha.

IPY GIRL IPY

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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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