Advertising supplement produced for Comme des Garçons in 2012, pairing Rei Kawakubo’s radical graphic sensibility with the imagery of Swiss photographer René Burri. 16 pp. paperback, 11.2 × 8.15 inches. Good condition.
For this collaboration, Kawakubo spliced and collaged Burri’s modernist photographs—trained in the Bauhaus tradition and known for his precise sense of structure—with Comme des Garçons’ instinct for rupture and reassembly. The result is a fleeting publication that feels both archival and avant-garde: a meeting of scissors and lens, of form and cut.
Burri, a longtime Magnum photographer, first gained international attention with his 1955 Life reportage “Touch of Music for the Deaf,” and went on to produce some of the 20th century’s most iconic documentary images.
Advertising supplement produced for Comme des Garçons in 2012, pairing Rei Kawakubo’s radical graphic sensibility with the imagery of Swiss photographer René Burri. 16 pp. paperback, 11.2 × 8.15 inches. Good condition.
For this collaboration, Kawakubo spliced and collaged Burri’s modernist photographs—trained in the Bauhaus tradition and known for his precise sense of structure—with Comme des Garçons’ instinct for rupture and reassembly. The result is a fleeting publication that feels both archival and avant-garde: a meeting of scissors and lens, of form and cut.
Burri, a longtime Magnum photographer, first gained international attention with his 1955 Life reportage “Touch of Music for the Deaf,” and went on to produce some of the 20th century’s most iconic documentary images.
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