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Asahi Camera Nummer 8 August 1969 fotomagasin.
Med bla: Takuma Nakahira, Daido Moriyama.
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Asahi Camera was Japan’s longest-running monthly photo magazine, published between April 1926 - July 2020. It primarily featured contemporary Japanese photography, and today it is recognised as being one of the instrumental monthly circulations to influence modern Japanese photo history when it from 1968 showcased the visual portfolios and photo theory of emerging photographers Takuma Nakahira and Daido Moriyama from the pioneering photo collective the Provoke Group.
The late 1960s-into-mid-1970s is a particularly groundbreaking trail in Asahi Camera within the context of modern photo history. Year 1969, Daido Moriyama appear in every January to December issue with two now influential photo projects, «Accident» and «Premeditated or Not». In these stark monochrome Moriyama-signature works, we experience the artist transitioning towards his deconstructing iconography that is manifested in the testimonial photo books «Bye Bye Photography» (1972), «Japan, a photo theatre II» (1978) and «Light And Shadow» (1982). In addition to Moriyama, Asahi Camera anno 1969 presents Shomei Tomatsu’s social documentary series «Okinawa», a project that reflects on the Japanese island, its culture and the US troops deployed there. We also find numerous works by photographers Ihei Kimura, Kishin Shinoyama, Eikoh Hosoe - to recurring photo stories such as Takuma Nakahira’s «New Japanese Aestheticism» or «Eyes of Quintet» featuring noteworthy artists Yoshitaka Nakatani and Fumiaki Kuwabara. The 1969 January - December front covers are photographed by Kazumi Kurigami.
In addition to the pristine craft being presented throughout the 1969 issues, it is worth underlining that Asahi Camera during this period was manufactured using the gravure printing method, a photomechanical process developed for high-quality picture reproduction. The method was valued for its high-grade resolution and sharpness, qualities that in black and white or monochrome photography render exceptionally beautifully and subtle nuance gradations. The method has in our contemporary been abandoned for less expensive mass-production printing without the same technical or artistic capabilities.
Thus, recent re-prints of classic 1960-and-70s Japanese photo books are incapable in competing with the materiality and density of visual information re-produced in Asahi Camera. This is especially evident if we compare new publications with original magazine features that has been included in photo book format. With this in mind, for lovers of photography and book collectors alike, Asahi Camera function as a direct access point into the era of legend photo books by Daido Moriyama, Shomei Tomatsu, Yutaka Takanashi and Takuma Nakahira - and titles that now are cost-inaccessible and hard to find. Asahi Camera is highly recommended viewing.
Soft cover, perfect bound
Japanese language
Color and B&W
Format: 18 cm x 25,8 cm
346 pages
Published by Asahi Newspaper Company, August 1969.
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