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We are very glad that our publication “Yutaka Takanashi, Photography 1965 – 74″, published by Only Photography, Berlin, won the Contemporary Book Award at the Rencontres D’Arles Photography Festival 2010.

The Contemporary Book Award goes to the best photography book published between 1 June 2009 and 31 May 2010. The Book Awards winners are chosen by the five Discovery Award nominators, Rencontres d’Arles president Jean-Noël Jeanneney, and LUMA Foundation founder Maja Hoffmann.
Rencontres d’Arles 2010

Yutaka Takanashi, Photography 1965 – 74
Editors: Roland Angst, Ferdinand Brueggemann, Priska Pasquer
Preface by Priska Pasquer, essays by Ferdinand Brueggmann and Hitoshi Suzuki
Published by Only Photography, Berlin
116 pages, 41 images, Triplex, hardcover
Text: German, English, Japanese

More details on the publication:
New gallery publication: Yutaka Takanashi, Photography 1965-74

The Historic Book Award went to: “Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and 70s”, by Ryuichi Kaneko & Ivan Vartanian, Aperture Foundation, 2009.

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By the way, this is second photobook Galerie Priska Pasquer was involved in which received an award. In 2005 the two volume publication on Heinz Hajek-Halke received the German Photobook Award:

Heinz Hajek-Halke. Form aus Licht und Schatten
Texts: Klaus Honnef, Priska Pasquer, Michael Ruetz, Alain Sayag, Rainer Stamm
2. Vol., Steidl Publisher 2005.

An english, one volume version, of the books is available as well:
Heinz Hajek-Halke: Artist, Anarchist
Steidl Publisher 2006