Smile Rock magazine None of the country's familiar

None of the country's familiar spectacle appears in his photographs

the area is eerily empty

with faux-leather and gold-debossed lettering designed by calligrapher John Stevens

Vale while working at City Lights Bookstore

Condition: good

Smile Rock magazine None of the country's familiarSoftcover First edition Unpaginated (approx 250 pages) Published by Club King Books, 1994. Made during the same period Kobayashi was working as an assistant to Elliott Erwitt in the United States, in the late 1960s into the early 1970s. Shot largely in Los Angeles, the work reflects a period of close looking and mobility, made outside of assignment and without narrative framing. Edited by Shigekazu Kuwahara, the book folds in ads and music references