Narahara. Europe: Where Time Has Stopped. Tokyo, 1967

Narahara (Ikko)
Europe: Where Time Has Stopped.
first edition, first printing, with 105 black & white and 30 colour photographic images, a number gate -folds, original raer postcard original blue cloth with printed paper label to spine, original photographical-ly illustrated slipcase with acetate cover, slight wear to head of spine, a near fine copy of his increasingly rare title, sm. folio, Tokyo: Kashima Kenkyujo Shupankan, 1967.

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"Europe: Where Time Has Stopped" earned Ikko Narahara the Japan Photo Critics Association Photog-rapher of the Year Award, The Mainichi Art Award, and the Minister of Education’s Award. The book is cited in Ryuichi Kaneko’s reference work on Japanese Photobooks, "Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and 1970s".