Nan Goldin The Other Side — Kawade Shobo 1993 First Edition First Printing Hardcover Japan

[PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS]
- Photographer: Nan Goldin
- Title: The Other Side
- Publisher: 河出書房新社 (Kawade Shobo-sha), Tokyo
- Year Published: 1993 — First Edition, First Printing
- Language: Japanese (captions and essay) / English (plate titles)
- Format: Hardcover, 27.5 × 22.5 cm
- Pages: 144 pp., all color photographs
- Inclusions: None noted

[OVERVIEW]
The Other Side is Nan Goldin’s landmark document of drag queens, transgender women, and gender-nonconforming individuals photographed across two decades — from Boston and New York in the early 1970s through Berlin and Bangkok in the early 1990s. Where Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency mapped the intimate violence of heterosexual love, The Other Side turns toward beauty, performance, and the radical act of self-creation: her subjects are not observed but celebrated, rendered in saturated color with the same unflinching tenderness that defines all of her work. This Japanese first edition, published by Kawade Shobo-sha in 1993 — the same year as the original Scalo/Editions du Seuil release — is among the earliest printings of the book in any language, and the only edition produced for the Japanese market. A primary document of queer visual culture at a moment of acute historical urgency, issued in the shadow of the AIDS crisis that had already claimed many of Goldin’s closest subjects.

[IMPORTANT NOTE FOR INTERNATIONAL BUYERS: EASY AI TRANSLATION]
Plate titles appear in English throughout. The Japanese essay and captions can be read instantly via Google Lens or ChatGPT. The photographs require no translation.

[WHY THIS VOLUME IS A PRIZED COLLECTOR'S ITEM]
1. First Edition, First Printing: The Japanese Kawade Shobo first edition (1993) is a simultaneous first — published in the same year as the Western editions — making it a true first-printing artifact rather than a later reprint. Copies in this condition are increasingly scarce.
2. Cultural & Historical Significance: The Other Side is one of the defining photobooks of queer visual culture and a cornerstone of any serious Nan Goldin collection. Its importance has only grown since Goldin’s 2022 Academy Award win and the renewed global attention to her practice.
3. Japan-Exclusive Edition: Produced specifically for the Japanese market with Japanese text, this edition occupies a distinct place in the book’s publication history and is not interchangeable with the Western printings.

[CONDITION]
Very Good — Solid Collector’s Copy
- Cover: Very good; rear cover shows slight fading consistent with thirty years of storage — a natural patina rather than damage.
- Spine: Intact, no splitting.
- Binding: Tight and fully secure.
- Endpapers: Slight sun fading — characteristic of the period and storage; does not affect the plates.
- Interior & Pages: Clean throughout — no writing, no stamps, no tears.
- *Please carefully inspect all high-resolution listing photos to verify condition.