BALLOON POSITION
The Paris Photo Aperture Book Foundation PhotoBook Awards
Shortlist - PhotoBook of the Year
Through Cyclopean gaze, literally the artist's vision, impaired by suffering a brain tumour,
attempts to reconstruct the shattered self that was suspended between conflicting internal and external chaos, life near death, eternal rainfall, gives herself to the construction of a handmade book. Balloon Position an appropriation, a facsimile of that dummy, a document of a document.
Anrakuji, a medium, photographic shaman, seeking through, literary, poetical, philosophical references in her enquiries.
Presenting what we love and fear.
Published by AKAAKA ART PUBLISHING Inc. Japan, 2019
208 pages
Soft cover
257 × 364 mm
ISBN: 978-4-86541-102-7
Limited number of signed copies available
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7000 yen + tax + shipping
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BALLOON POSITION- Special Edition
A signed copy of the book and a signed and numbered original print
Edition of 30 will be available exclusively from OFFICE EMI ANRAKUJI
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MISHO
MISHO includes previously unseen works from compelling 1800 millimètre series.
Selected by LensCulture's Curators' picks of 2017. Finalist of LUCIE PHOTO BOOK AWARD independent category 2018.
Published by SHINTO, Portugal, November 10, 2017.
Edited by Rui Ribeiral & Paulo Nozolino
Text by Emi Anrakuji
Design by ilhas studio
Edition of 250 with hanko stamp.
Offset printing over silkscreen printing with photoluminescent ink.
All copies stitched and assembled by hand
Softcover in a slipcase with obi
32 pages, 18 black & white illustrations.
210 x 300mm
Very limited number of signed copies available
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Live fruitfully
Here I stand
Trusting that every phenomenon is the first step to create this book
Everything begins here
- Emi Anrakuji
MISHO- Special Edition
A signed copy of the book and a signed and numbered original gelatin silver print
Print paper size 130 x 100 mm
Image size 120 x 90mm
Edition of 15
Available exclusively from OFFICE EMI ANRAKUJI
$ 460 ( dollar USA ) + shipping
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IPY
A prolific producer of images, Anrakuji often arranges her work as handmade books, one of which served as the catalyst for IPY.
Published by Nazraeli Press, USA, 2008
Hardcover
80 pages, 79 plates.
100 x 440 mm
ISBN: 978-1-59005-218-1
IPY - Special Edition
Published by Nazraeli Press, USA, 2008
Signed copy of the book, and a signed and numbered original print in a clamshell box. Edition of 25.
One Picture Book #40: e hagaki
Anrakuji contributed to Nazraeli's One Picture Book series. She displays reproductions of her one-off digital prints onto e hagaki (picture postcards). The book concludes with an original, signed portrait printed over a vintage postcard. Each original print is unique.
Published by Nazraeli Press, USA, 2008
Hardcover
Edition limited to 500 copies
16 pages + 1 original print
184 x 140 mm
ISBN: 159005179-3
Witness#2
Daido Moriyama, as artist and editor presents his own photographs taken in Shanghai and the work of two other artists: Emi Anrakuji and Ken Kitano for the second installment in the Nazraeli Press "Witness" Series.
Anrakuji's jigsaw puzzle-like portraits of herself - naked, clothed or partially dressed - blur the boundaries between documentary and staged photography. It also includes an illustrated overview of JGS activities in the arts.
Published by Joy of Giving Something, Inc. (JGS) with distribution by Nazraeli Press, USA, 2007
Edited by Daido Moriyama
Hardcover
96 pages
ISBN: 1590051998
EMI ANRAKUJI
Emi Anrakuji's first monograph to be published outside of Japan. Posing naked, clothed, or partially dressed, Anrakuji takes a uniquely obsessive interest in her own body. Her legs, arms, hands, toes, lips, and hair create arresting compositions and erotic ambiance.
Published by Nazraeli Press, USA, 2006
Hardcover
40 pages
250 x 163 mm
ISBN-10: 159005167X
EMI ANRAKUJI - Special edition
Edition of 25 copies. 60 pages, 53 four-color plates with two signed and numbered original color prints in a clamshell box.
Published by Nazraeli Press, USA, 2006
ISBN: 159005167X
HMMT?
The first book by Emi Anrakuji, HMMT? showcases black & white images for which the artist received the Grand Prize of WHITE CUBE Kyoto Photo contest in 2003.
Published by Yu-Time Shuppan, Japan, 2005
Softcover
250 pages
180 × 260 mm
ISBN: 4860100646
Very limited number of signed copies available
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