Brukoff, Barry. v Exhibition Catalog, Gallery Min, Tokyo, 1987.

Essay by Morrie Camhi in English and Japanese. Wraps, as issued.  VG+ with slight wear at corners. Exhibition catalog for July 11-August 3, 1987 show, about 70 pages with large color plates.  Subject include Taos; Mykonos; St. Louis; Santa Catalina; Isamu Naguchi Sculpture; Burano, Italy.  Includes portrait of the photographer and biography.  Brukoff (1935-2023) studied painting, sculpture, and design at the Art Institute of Chicago. He moved to San Francisco in 1970 and began a career as a photographer, painter, and designer. His many awards include two grants from the National Endowment for the  Arts. Seven books of his photographs have been published other than this catalog.  Summary:

Overview:
Barry Brukoff. Exhibition Catalog, Gallery Min, Tokyo, 1987 is a bilingual exhibition catalogue created to accompany a solo show of Barry Brukoff’s photographic work held at Gallery Min in Tokyo from July 11 to August 3, 1987. The catalog includes text in both English and Japanese, reflecting the international presentation of his work.

Content Highlights:

• The catalogue runs to roughly 70–90 pages, featuring large full-page color plates of Brukoff’s photographs.

• Photographs included in the catalog span a range of geographic subjects and visual themes, with images taken in diverse locations such as Taos (New Mexico), Mykonos (Greece), St. Louis (Missouri), Santa Catalina (California), and Burano (Italy), as well as photographs of sculptural works by Isamu Naguchi.

• A brief essay by Morrie Camhi (in both English and Japanese) provides contextual commentary on Brukoff’s art, situating his work within contemporary photography and offering insight into his visual approach and significance.

Supplementary Material:

• The catalog includes a portrait of Barry Brukoff, a short biography, and notes on the exhibition itself, giving readers a fuller sense of the artist’s career and photographic interests.

Purpose & Significance:
The catalog serves both as a visual record of Brukoff’s Tokyo exhibition and as a standalone documentation of his photography at that stage in his career. It was produced by Gallery Min, a venue in Tokyo known for promoting American contemporary photographers to Japanese audiences with high-quality bilingual publications accompanying each show.

Barry Brukoff (1935–2023) was an American fine-art photographer, painter, and interior designer recognized for his architectural sensitivity, dramatic use of light, and visual studies of ancient sacred sites and international landscapes. Born in Chicago, Brukoff studied painting, sculpture, and design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago before relocating to San Francisco in 1970 to pursue a multi-faceted creative career across painting, photography, and interior design. In the mid-1980s, he shifted his primary focus toward fine-art photography, bringing a painterly eye for light, abstract composition, shadow, and texture to large-format color and black-and-white printmaking. Over a career spanning more than four decades, Brukoff traveled extensively across the globe to document archaeological monuments, historic architecture, and natural landscapes, illustrating major collaborative monographs including The Enigma of Stonehenge (1980, with author John Fowles), Morocco (1993, with Paul Bowles), Greece: Land of Light (1998, with Nicholas Gage), Machu Picchu (2002, pairing his photography with poetry by Pablo Neruda), and Temples of Cambodia: The Heart of Angkor (2011). A recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts grants, Brukoff exhibited his work internationally in galleries from Tokyo to New York and leaves behind a legacy celebrated for transforming cultural heritage sites into evocative visual poetry.