Played represents the first solo project by Yoshi Kametani following his recent successful collaborations with Daisuke Yokota and IPG Project. A conceptual work in the form of a hybrid book (part photobook, part novella) based on events that take place in the criminal underworld of New York City.
The protagonist, bored with his mundane existence and day to day routine, decides one night to walk aimlessly through mid-town Manhattan. Serendipitously ending up in Times Square, a tasteless corporate Disneyland and haven to seedy business, drugs, prostitution and crime, he finds himself intrigued by the area and begins being drawn back night after night. Unexpectedly, he soon gets to know some of the regulars who hang around the streets and eventually meets a curiously compelling character. Quickly befriended, the protagonist is taken on a journey down a convoluted path riddled with deception. Hustle after hustle, lie after lie, a string of events leads to an unforeseen, undesirable and potentially dangerous situation.
Designed to be taken apart and reassembled - providing a temporary exhibition to accompany the narrative - Played comes loose bound in a protective PVC dust jacket with a saddle sewn booklet held in place with an elastic cord.
This edition has been sold out since 2018 but due to demand, we are releasing a very limited number of original books from our archives to make them available to collectors. These will be the final copies available and there will be no further editions.
First Edition
500 copies
64 pages, 44 plates
22.0 cm x 33.0 cm
Loose Bound Softcover
PVC Dustjacket with Elastic Cord
28 pages
15.0 cm x 22.5 cm
Saddle Sewn Softcover
Offset printing
Éditions du LIC 2016
ISBN 978-82-93341-15-4
