KOHEI YOSHIYUKI - DOCUMENT KOEN (DOCUMENT PARK) VOL.4

KOHEI YOSHIYUKI
DOCUMENT KOEN / DOCUMENT PARK VOL.4

Published by Seven Sha, 1980
Book size 21 x 26 cm
Pages 112 pages + 74 images
Softcover with a dust jacket
First edition
Second printing
The corners of the cover lightly damaged

Document Koen (Document Park) is a photobook from 1980 by the photographer Kohei Yoshiyuki featuring nocturnal scenes of people engaged in sexual activities in the park. Flash photos expose the figures and their skins in the darkness, the subjects are not always aware of their observer. Some of the images turn into more abstract views. Kohei Yoshiyuki's Document Koen / Document Park remains as a social experimentation of Japan's nightly parks, exposing the border between intimacy and surveillance.

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Document Koen (Document Park) is a 1980 photobook by photographer Kohei Yoshiyuki who plays the role of a voyeur and takes photographs of nighttime scenes of people engaged in sexual activity in the park. The flash photos expose the characters and their skin in darkness, the subjects not always aware of their observer. Some of the images transform into more abstract views. Kohei Yoshiyuki's Document Koen / Document Park remains a social experiment in Japan's nighttime parks, revealing the boundary between intimacy and surveillance.