Published by Studio Parabolica, this is a soft cover guide book to "dangerous" photography books. Kotaro Iizawa has collected photos and descriptions of 246 photography books with subject matter leaning towards the risky - nudity, porn, death, the grotesque, dysmorphias, tattoos, bondage, madness, old fashioned erotica, etc.
Most are a photo of the front cover, a description in Japanese and one or two thumbnails of inside pages. There are also some full page articles and photographs. Most notably a 15 page spread on Slawomir Rumiak's book "The Love Book: The Best of My Dreams" with full page black and white photos.
Some of the artist's books included: John Willie, Henri Maccheroni, Dahmane, Stanley B. Burns, Pierre Molinier, Robert Mapplethorpe, Sylvia Wolf, Hans Bellmer, Helmut Newton, Erwin Olaf, Romain Slocombe, Ichiro Ono, Nobuyoshi Araki, and a ton more.
Measures 5" x 7.5" x .75" (12.8cm x 19cm x 2cm).
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