Signed by Eikoh Hosoe and inscribed to Harold Jones

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Author: Hosoe, Eikoh

Title: Embrace

Place Published: Tokyo

Publisher:Shshin Hyoronsha Publishing House

Date Published: 1971

Description:
Text in Japanese. Preface by Yukio Mishima. Illustrated throughout from the b&w photographs of Eikoh Hosoe. Black cloth stamped in white, jacket, publisher's cardboard box with wraparound label. First Edition.

Signed by Eikoh Hosoe and inscribed to Harold Jones "To Harold Jones / You are more than handsome! Eikoh Hosoe April 1974". According to the Center for Creative Photography, of which Harold Jones was founding Director, "Harold Jones (born 1940) has contributed to photography as an artist, educator, curator and arts administrator. Born in Morristown, New Jersey in 1940, he graduated from the Maryland Institute with a BFA in Painting and Photography, and from the University of New Mexico with an MFA in Art History and Photography. After graduation Jones worked as an assistant curator at the George Eastman House and in 1971 became the first director of LIGHT Gallery in New York City, the first gallery to exclusively represent contemporary photographers, such as Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. In 1975 Jones became the founding director of the Center for Creative Photography and then went on to start the photography program at the University of Arizona where he taught for the next 30 years."