WATABE, Yukichi.
A Criminal Investigation.
Paris: Editions Xavier Barral / Le Bal, 2011.
4to (289 x 210 mm), pp.[100] (on double leaves). 70 black-and-white photographs. Black endpapers. Oatmeal cloth-covered boards, spine lettered in black, title label and photographic reproduction inset to front cover, descriptive label to rear. Elastic notebook-style closing. Fine.
First edition. Yukichi Watabe is little-known Japanese photographer who, in 1958, was granted special permission to follow a police detective as he investigates the ‘dismembered-corpse case’, as it came to be known. His noir-like photographs were re-discovered, and sequenced into an atmospheric narrative by Diane Dufour and Xavier Barral.
Parr and Badger, The Photobook: A History Vol.III p.116.
