Dèjá-Vu Nº13 – Larry Clark, Sebastião Salgado (1993)

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 thirteenth out of twenty essential works created by Dèjá-Vu and presents the series of Larry Clark plus an interview with Sebastião Salgado. The work of Larry Clark featured are the series Tulsa, Teenage Lust, Collages 1989-1992 and 1992. Other photographers featured in this issue are Ishiuchi Miyako and Kinoshita Iori. Besides several essays, reviews and other articles, there is a very interesting article about the photography in Taiwan.

All texts are in Japanese, but there are very short summaries in English; the interview to Sebastião Salgado is translated too.

Photo-Planète, 1993. Softcover, 180 pages. ISBN: 4309903339.

First edition. Condition: minor storage marks, very good condition.