Japanese Photography and Design
Ningen no Tochi - Human Land. (1987.)
First edition. 107 photographic plates. Text in English and Japanese. Folio. Original boards in dustwrapper and obi, a very good copy signed by the photographer on page facing title. [viii], [xvi](text)pp. Tokyo, Libroport,
The first complete publication of images taken for Narahara's first exhibition held in May 1956. It combines two documentaries of people living in extreme conditions: One is of a mining village on an artificial island called 'Warship Island' (Gunkan-jima). It is 480 metres long and 160 meters wide housing almost five-thousand miners and their families. The other shows the community of Kurokami village, living in the vicinity of an active volcano without any access to gound-water. "The exhibition, almost as if announcing a new age of photography in Japan, left a fresh, invigorating impression on those who saw it." (Fukushima Tatsuo: The Time within Times. p. [v]).
Stock Code: FE40579
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