Dèjá-Vu Nº6 – Martin Parr, Seiji Kurata, Jane Evelyne Atwood… (1992)

Dèjá-Vu was an excellent magazine dedicated to photography in its full form. This perfectly printed and exquisite good taste journal could only have been crafted in Japan, the land of the most meticulous and mesmerizing photobooks. Usually it is focused in a main topic (it could be a genre of photography or an author) and then features the work of local current authors and some exhibitions and book reviews. Besides that some short articles and interviews can appear in their pages, but usually related to the main element of the issue. In some of these issues also there is a small part dedicated to experimental printing, and paper or printing styles suddenly change in the most extravagant ways.

This photography quaterly is the sixth out of twenty essential works created by Dèjá-Vu and presents the series of Jane Evelyn Atwood, Seiji Kurata, Hiromi Nagakura, Martin Parr and Gen Yamaguchi. This issue was focused on documentary photography, presenting some of the best photographers in the international scene and also in the Japanese circuit.

•  Kurata, Seiji: Random Street Photos 1984-1988. Tokio.
• Jane Evelyn Atwood: Birth. 1983. Clinique la Maternité des Lilas, Paris.
• Martin Parr: One Day Trip. 1989. Boulogne.
• Yamaguchi Gen: Photographs 1984-89. China, USSR, Cuba and Yugoslavia.
• Nagakura Hiromi: El Salvador and Afghanistan 1982-90.

All texts are in Japanese, but there are summaries in English.

Photo-Planète, 1992. Softcover, 180 pages. ISBN: 4309903266.

First edition. Condition: minor storage marks, the rest is like new.