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Super rare Japanese release of the Perspectives book, covering his Polaroids artwork from 1982 to 1984. This book (only 500 printed!), as well as the regular UK release, contain colour prints of his polaroid collages, featuring many famous persons as subject of those collages like Steve Jansen, Holger Czukay, Yuka Fujii and Angus McBean. Compared to the UK edition, there are some additional polaroid compilations printed and a series of letters written by Sylvian to Sakamoto concerning the publication of the book, among other things (see one of the pictures with a sketch by Sylvian of a very Cocteauesque-looking Orpheus).
The physical structure of the book is like an old Buddhist prayer book, i.e. that it doesn't have a spine, it's like one great, long scroll has been folded up between two hard covers.
Front Back
The outer packaging is made of cardboard and wraps around the book.
More interesting and related pages on trophies.org:
Read the more than interesting foreword of the Japanese Perspectives book.
Take a look at the Perspective 82-84 special publication.
Read another online article about the Polaroids exhibition, transcript from Blitz, June 1984.
Read more about Perspectives here.

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