Japanese Photobooks of the 1960S and &Apos;70S

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 7 Introduction Ryuichi Kaneko 11 The Japanese Photobook: Toward an Immediate Media Ivan Vartanian 23 A Note on Japanese Names 25 Photography in Print An Interview with Daido Moriyama 30 Hiroshi Hamaya I Snow Land 36 Shuntaro Tanikawa I Picture Book 40 Yasuhiro Ishimoto I Someday, Somewhere 46 Graphic ShGdan I Untitled 50 Eikoh Hosoe I Man and Woman 56 Ken Domon i The Children ofChikuho 62 Ichiro Kojima I Tsugaru (Poems, Texts, and Photography) 68 Yoichi Midorikawa I Seto Inland Sea 72 Yasuhiro Yoshioka I Yasuhiro Yoshioka 76 Yasuzo Nojima I Yasuzo Nojima: Posthumous Works 80 Fumiaki Kuwabara I Minamata Disease 86 Kikuji Kawada i The Map 94 Shomei Tomatsu I Japan 102 Kishin Shinoyama I 28 Girls by Kishin Shinoyama I Nude 108 Nobuyoshi Araki I Sentimental Journey I Okinawa: Araki Nobuyoshi Photobook 2 (Sentimental Journey Continued) I Tokyo: Araki Nobuyoshi Photobook 3 116 Daido Moriyama I Japanese Theater 124 Ikko Narahara I Europe: Where Time Has Stopped I Japanesque 130 Takuma Nakahira I For a Language to Come 136 Underground Generation 140 Katsumi Watanabe I Shinjuku Thievery Story, '66-J3 144 What Is 10/21? 150 Kenji Ishiguro I Hiroshima Now 156 Tetsuya Ichimura I Come Up 160 Yasushi Sugino I Impressive Landscape 164 I hei Kim u ra I The Eye of Ihei Kimura 168 Yutaka Takanashi I Towards the City 174 Hajime Sawatari I Nadia 178 Teiko Shiotani I Teiko Shiotani: Album, 1923-1973 182 Kineo Kuwabara I Tokyo 1936 188 Kiyoshi Suzuki S Soul and Soul 192 Hiromi Tsuchida I Gods of the Earth 196 Hitoshi Tsukiji I Perpendicularly, (Territory) 200 Shigeo Gocho I Self and Others 206 Miyako Ishiuchi I Apartment 212 Issei Suda I FOshi Kaden 218 Jun Morinaga I River: Its Shadow of Shadows 222 Keizo Kitajima I Photo Express: Tokyo, No. i-No. 12 228 Kanendo Watanabe IA Town Already Seen 232 Masahisa Fukase I Ravens 238 Index 240 Author and Editor Biographies i Acknowledgments (f SLUB.

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