A legendary masterpiece of the 1960s Japanese underground avant-garde, "Les Fleurs du Mal" (悪の華 わが性からの復権) is a lysergic, theatrical photo-poetry book that subverts traditional beauty.
Published in 1968 by Nobel Shobo, this highly coveted first-edition hardcover features the iconic cult actress Mako Midori, captured through the provocative, high-contrast photogravure lens of photographer Akira Suzuki. Inspired by Charles Baudelaire’s forbidden poetry collection Les Fleurs du Mal, the book weaves together Midori’s striking portraits, warped theatrical collages, graphic embellishments by Mari Kimura, and the elegant Japanese translations of Baudelaire's poems by Daigaku Horiguchi.
