One Night Carnival - Fumiaki Fukuda
£175.00
FUKUDA, Fumiaki.
One Night Carnival.
First edition. 124pp b&w images in stiff printed wrappers with colourful printed dust jacket. Tokyo: Daisan Shokan, 1979.
Dynamic photo book focusing on the biker subculture of Tokyo in the late 1970s. Sequenced like a film strip and densely packed to show the speed and drama of the biker gatherings. Fukuda captures the iconic biker style and all that comes with it from the bikes, the girl gangs, to the insignia and weapons. An incredible work whose design perfectly captures this unique and fleeting event.