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Seiji Kurata - FLASH UP Street Photo Random Tokyo 1975 - 1979 倉田精二, Byakuya Shobo, 1980, Tokyo

 

Softcover with obi and publisher’s acetate jacket.

„Kurata won the fifth Kimura Ihei Award in 1980 for his first book, Flash Up. For the black-and-white photographs here, Kurata used flash and a medium format camera, resulting in a detailed portrait of a world of bōsōzoku, gangsters, rightists, strippers, transvestites, and so on: as Parr and Badger point out, these are old subjects; but in his "highly polished, detailed" work, Kurata "has an unerring instinct for pictures that suggest stories" (Wikipedia)

Pages: 190
Place: Tokyo
Year: 1980
Publisher: Byakuya Shobo
Size: 21 x 30 cm (approx.)


Included in "The Photobook: A History Volume I" by Parr/Badger
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Included in "The Japanese Photobook, 1912–1990" by Kaneko Ryuichi & Manfred Heiting
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Softcover with obi and publisher’s acetate jacket.

„Kurata won the fifth Kimura Ihei Award in 1980 for his first book, Flash Up. For the black-and-white photographs here, Kurata used flash and a medium format camera, resulting in a detailed portrait of a world of bōsōzoku, gangsters, rightists, strippers, transvestites, and so on: as Parr and Badger point out, these are old subjects; but in his "highly polished, detailed" work, Kurata "has an unerring instinct for pictures that suggest stories" (Wikipedia)

Pages: 190
Place: Tokyo
Year: 1980
Publisher: Byakuya Shobo
Size: 21 x 30 cm (approx.)


Included in "The Photobook: A History Volume I" by Parr/Badger
>> see more Vol. I picks here

Included in "The Japanese Photobook, 1912–1990" by Kaneko Ryuichi & Manfred Heiting
>> see more picks from that book