Publisher/白夜書房

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Photo Cabaret (With OBI) is a photo collection by Japanese photographer Seiji Kurata. Since the late 1970s, he has wandered around the city, mainly in Ikebukuro and Shinjuku, and his works, which feature people playing in nightlife and rough street corners, are captured with intense strobe light, depicting the strange and mysterious darkness lurking in the city. They are violent and provocative, yet have a chaotic beauty, and human love resides in their cold, objective gaze, reminiscent of the great American photographer Weegee, who was described as a 'hyena of the city', and Diane Arbus, who is famous for her portraits of freaks. Seiji Kurata is highly regarded worldwide as a photographer who has opened up new frontiers in documentary and photographic art, and who has opened up a hole in the Japanese photography world since the 1980s. This book is the second photo collection published following his first work, Flash Up, published in 1980. Kurata, who no longer felt any excitement, frustration or desire in the streets of Tokyo, traveled to Hokkaido, Kyushu, neighboring prefectures and even overseas to take snapshots, and this unique book is bound like a weekly information magazine, with humorous text. Cover design by Kimura Tsunehisa. Comes with obi. (Included in The Japanese Photobook 1912–1990)