Takashi Homma

Came with the limited edition print of 25. Book numbering is on external sticker stored with print.

This is some of the signed copies from the 500-b&w unsigned edition, not the signed color edition of 100.

Cover comes in two colors, blue or beige.

25 different cover designs with screen-printed lettering. Each copy has a randomized sequence.

Signature is on the first title page, numbering is on last page.

This is not the second printing/edition.

Tokyo Suburbia (1998) by Takashi Homma is a landmark publication in contemporary Japanese photography and a defining visual record of Japan's post-bubble "Lost Decade."

Moving away from the gritty, emotional style of previous generations, Homma employed a bright, detached, and deadpan "new documentary" approach to capture Tokyo's expanding, sterile "New Towns." The images portray a profound sense of alienation, capturing disengaged youth navigating soulless concrete environments.

In a brilliant conceptual choice, publisher Korinsha Press produced the volume on thick, rigid cardboard pages, mimicking a children's board book to ironically contrast with the isolated reality of its subjects.

The project won the 24th Kimura Ihei Award in 1999 and is prominently cited in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger’s The Photobook: A History, Volume II.

This is NOT the 2019 Mack reprint.

This is the limited edition with print of the 2009 Match & Company edition.

Trails (2019) by Takashi Homma, published by MACK Books, marks a stark departure from the photographer's renowned explorations of urban and suburban landscapes.

Set in the remote, snow-covered Shiretoko Peninsula of Hokkaido, Japan, the project documents the visceral remnants of deer hunts. Homma followed local hunters through the winter terrain, photographing the tracks and blood trails left behind in the pristine snow. The resulting images contrast the violent, bright red splashes of blood against the serene white landscape, creating a rigorous, almost abstract formalist study of mortality, nature, and human intervention.

Published as a first edition by MACK in 2019, the book's physical construction reflects the delicate tension of its subject matter. It is designed as a softcover with unique perforated folded flaps, utilizing a fragile materiality that contrasts sharply with the stark reality of the hunt.

Trails anchors perfectly within the Bushwick Sur Seine archive by bridging visual formalism with the book-as-object. Homma strips away traditional documentary narrative, reducing the violence of a deer hunt to abstract, structural compositions of red blood on stark white snow. Furthermore, MACK’s delicate physical design, featuring fragile, perforated folded flaps, forces a tactile interaction that conceptually contrasts with the visceral subject matter.

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ISBN is not on book's colophon.