{"product_id":"uk77","title":"UK77: Digging my way to London - Shinro Ohtake","description":"\u003cp\u003eOHTAKE, Shinro. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eUK 77: Digging my way to London. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. 4to. [circa 400pp]. Black boards in dust wrap with obi. Colour and b\u0026amp;w plates throughout. English and Japanese texts. Tokyo: Getsuyosha, 2004. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeautiful travel diary of London in 1977 with photographs, sketches and observations including striking collages assembled from British ephemera. “An established Japanese artist since the 1980s, best known as a painter, Shinro Ohtake has produced dozens of books incorporating collage, drawing, painting, sculpture as well as photography. In 1977 at age 22 Ohtake spent time In London documenting through a reduced photography style, drawing, painting and obsessive scrapbooks of ephemera. What emerges is a grim portrait of England still mired in the drab left overs of the 60s but with odd flashes of excitement; on the cusp of the emergence of Punk. Moreover it is a particularly lonely portrait of youth with the artist himself sketching figures in pubs and parks and on trains, collecting matchbooks and bus tickets and traipsing the streets, photographing frenetically.” Parr\/Badger vol.3.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tenderbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56840986952057,"sku":null,"price":125.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0488\/8029\/files\/Tenderbooks-21_a04ee14b-57db-408c-9f8b-f82bee64bd69.jpg?v=1782927449","url":"https:\/\/tenderbooks.live\/products\/uk77","provider":"Tenderbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}