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Asahi Camera Nummer 7 Juli 1972.
Teksten fortsetter på engelsk.
A classic early 1970s number.
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 and 1972 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 by Takuma Nakahira as well as Masahisa Fukase - who’s work later would be published in the now classic photo book «Family».
In addition to the pristine craft being presented throughout the late 1960-‘70s 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.
This issue features in selection photographers: Kishin Shinoyama (cover), Kazuo Taira, Teruyoshi Hashimoto excerpts from now classic Japan photo book «Goze», Toru Sugita, Torahiko Yamashita, Daido Moriyama, Kenji Kanesaka, Ihei Kimura, Masahisa Fukase, Shin Yanagsawa.
Soft cover, perfect bound
Japanese language
Color and B&W
Format: 18 cm x 25,8 cm
350 pages
Published by Asahi Newspaper Company, July 1972.
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