Osamu Yokonami
Primal

Book

Editor, designer and publisher of Japanese artist and photographer Osamu Yokonami’s limited edition photo-book Primal.

A range of expressions and emotions permeate the pages as you gradually enter Osamu Yokonami’s continuing exploration of primal instincts. The children glance at you. They unknowingly confront you with their personalities that subtly emanate faced with the challenge of holding onto a fruit or vegetable balancing between chin and shoulder — themselves placed within the ever transitioning clouds.

Frowning in menace or softly smiling, distanced from civilisation, they patiently wait to be depicted closest to their most natural state.

20,5 cm x 27 cm (8” x 10.6”). 120 pages. 290 color plates. Offset printed clothbound hardcover. Linen thread bound. Blue headband. Authentic tip-in image on front cover with blind embossed typography on spine and back cover. Dustcover in offset with typography on front cover, spine and back cover in beige foil. Special edition of 25 copies, numbered, in customized blue paper folder, screen printed in white, with signed original C-print.

Published by Libraryman, 2019.