Red Flower: The Women of Okinawa James baldwin First UK edition first impression

First UK edition first impression from 1962 in near fine condition

The “demonic beauty of the cherry blossoms” of Moriyama and Sakaguchi turn into a jet-black photobook of bottomless loneliness

no markings ther book is still in shrink wrap

published in 2019

Told through an examination of animal and plant life

Red Flower: The Women of Okinawa James baldwin First UK edition first impressionSecond edition Limited to 600 copies Large format paperback in new condition About Red Flower celebrates the courageous and honest lives of women she met and befriended while working at bars in Koza and Kin that were hang outs for black soldiers from the local US military bases in Okinawa. The book features several unpublished photographs from artist's first book, Hot Days in Camp Hansen" published in 1982. Red Flower is the seminal work of Ishikawa,