The Past and the Present of Photography by Tohru Matsumoto - 1990

Tokyo: National Museum of Modern Art. Hardcover without jacket (picture cover). Oversize exhibition catalog. A touch of rubbing to extremities else very good condition: binding sound, text clean, light shelfwear. 112 pages. Japanese and English texts. Illustrated. Heavy book: priority or international shipping may require additional charges. . Good+. Hardcover. 2003.

Tokyo: National Museum of Art, 2003. 1st edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Wolfgain Laib. Hardcover without dust jacket as issued, 112 pages, in Japanese with 1 essay in English at rear; Near Fine condition, clean and crisp; no internal marks.

Tokyo, Japan: National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 2009. Softcover. VG, bent cover. Pictorial wraps with cutout at front; 336 pp.; 4 gatefolds; Profusely illustrated in bw and color. Text mostly in Korean and Japanese; Forewords also provided in English; Accompanied a traveling exhibition of the sculpture of Kwon Jin Kyu (Kwon Jinkyu, Kwon Jin-kyu).

Japan / Korea: National Museum of Modern Art / National Museum of Contemporary Art, 2009. (JPN) Presumed 1st edition. No markings, tiny nick to spine edge, and a tiny tear to die-cut window of front cover, otherwise about Near Fine. Wraps, with die-cut window, 338pp, mostly colour photos of human figures in clay, horses heads carved from stone, heads and busts. the text is mostly in Japanese and in Korean but there is one essay in English. Kwon Jin-kyu (1922-1973) had held only three solo exhibitions by the time he took his own life at his studio at age 50. Since then, a few dozen more shows have taken place in Korea and Japan to remember one of the greatest and pioneering sculptors in Korea's modern art history. A heavy book. (4.5 JM HOJ 300/b3. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Exhibition Catalogue..

Tokyo, Japan: National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 2009. Softcover. VG. Pictorial wraps with cutout at front; 336 pp.; 4 gatefolds; Profusely illustrated in bw and color. Text mostly in Korean and Japanese; Forewords also provided in English; Accompanied a traveling exhibition of the sculpture of Kwon Jin Kyu (Kwon Jinkyu, Kwon Jin-kyu).

Tokyo: National Museum of Modern Art, 2005. (JPN) No markings, touch of rubbing to cover corner tips, tiny nick to bsck cover, Near Fine. Wraps, 211pp, colour reproecutions of paintings and artworks. The text is in Japanese but the captions to the reproductions contain English and Japanese. This is a catalog of an exhibition held at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, August 9 - October 2, 2005, at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea (Deoksugung), November 11, 2005 - January 30, 2006, and at the Singapore Art Museum, February 18, 2006 - April 9, 2006. (2.6 JM HOJ 300/b3. Paperback. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Exhibition Catalogue..

Tokyo, Japan: National Museum of Modern Art. 2005. Trade paperback. Very good.. 211 p. Includes: illustrations, bibliography. . Catalog of an exhibition held at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, August 9-October 2, 2005, at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea (Deoksugung), November 11, 2005-January 30, 2006, and at the Singapore Art Museum, February 18, 2006-April 9, 2006.

Japan: National Museum of Modern Art, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary ARt, Contemporary ARt Museum Kumamoto, and Matsumoto City Museum, 2004. Third Printing. Hardbound. VG but with bumps to covers at top/bottom of spine. Block of pages not supported well by endpapers holding it in to cover, so the clock of pages misaligns with covers when held loosely, but no splitting in hinges as of yet.. Color Illustrated boards. Silver end papers. 298+ pp., profusely illustrated in color. Published to accompany 5 exhibitions at 5 museums in Japan between October 2004 and October 2005.. Text is in Japanese and English. The exhibitions had different themes in 4 locations. The sub-titles for the exhibition were: Eternity-Modernity (Tokyo, Kyoto), Eight Places For Burning Soul (Hiroshima City), Sailing The Sea of Infinity (Kumamoto) and The Place For My Soul (Matsumoto).

Springer Verlag, 2012. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 348 pages. 9.25x6.10x0.82 inches.

Tokyo: National Museum of Modern Art, 2004. 2nd edition. Nice copy. quarto. laminated boards 298pp., col. & b/w pls., Duel-text JAPANESE/ENGLISH. Small bump to front board o/w nice copy. Scarce