If you, like the rest of the world, happen to be around London in the next couple of months, you probably ought to check out the Contemporary Japanese Photobooks exhibit at The Photographer’s Gallery. 1 It looks like it gives an overview of book publishing in Japan, and I heard that there are some weird animal-themed books and other errata there as well.
The exhibit has a Tumblr 2, which is noteworthy in that each book has a comment page, and viewers like us are encouraged to submit a topic to the site for discussion. Whether this will actually happen remains to be seen, but the idea is a good one.
The links are already rolling in, including a post from Microcord 3 going over the specifics of some of the books, and a useless review 4 of the show. I’ll update if anything else comes in; I’d love to hear what Francis Hodgson 5 has to say about it.