YOKOO, TADANORI. Waterfall Rapture: Postcards of Falling Water, My Addiction My Collection.

WITH TWO POSTCARDS YOKOO, TADANORI. Waterfall Rapture: Postcards of Falling Water, My Addiction My Collection. Essay by Hiroshi Aramata. Illustrated with reproductions of 13,000 postcards of waterfalls. 4to, stamped red boards, stray pencil mark; photo-pictorial dust jacket; original printed obi. Parr/Badger II 224. first edition, signed by yokoo. (Tokyo, Japan): (Shinchosha Company, Publishers), (1996)

with--Two postcards of waterfalls reproduced in the book, both depicting "Kegan Cataract, Nikko."

Yokoo's first book features his collection of thousands of postcards of waterfalls, which are reproduced as a cascade of repeated imagery. In a giddy, yet carefully controlled design, the cards are arranged thematically, some pages with dozens to a spread. Yokoo is a graphic designer, painter, photographer, writer, and movie actor, and has featured prominently in the postwar Japanese photography and photobook history.