White Casket [SIGNED AND NUMBERED C-PRINT MOUNTED TO PLEXIGLASS]

Tucson: Nazraeli Press, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine to fine condition. Elephant Folio Wooden Box. Unpaginated. Original red quarter cloth over heavy photo-illustrated boardswith silver lettering on spine, housed in white lacquer wooden box (19 1/4 X 17 1/4 X 2") with signed and numbered (91/100) color print, mounted to thick plexiglass block, and book laid in. White silk pull levers. Book with silver edges. Red endpapers. Title page black with white lettering.

"What Yanagi pays attention to are the cultural codes embedded within the great architecture and passageways (arcades) that have frozen the atmosphere of modernism amidst the acceleration of the period. The Elevator Girls, like apparitions, appear as its peculiar signs. This fabricated space of modernism, stripped of a time axis, is simultaneously akin to a future city where all excitement has faded. Yanai's Elevator Girls reside in both a past and future time-space." (Aomi Okabe). White wooden box with light smudeges.