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Landscapes (With OBI) is a photo collection by Japanese photographer Norio Kobayashi. Norio Kobayashi is said to be a leading figure in the "New Topographics" movement, which includes American photographers Robert Adams and Lewis Bolz. In 1993, he won the 18th Kimura Ihei Award for his work "First Light," and this book is his first collection of works, published privately, and won the Newcomer's Award from the Photographic Society of Japan. It is composed of landscape photographs that capture the transformation of Tama New Town, a suburb of Tokyo. The color illustrations, which at first glance look like ordinary catalog photos, are engraved with the changing history of the suburbs. Old houses made of corrugated iron and thatch were demolished, forests collapsed, and the hills, which had become "desertified" with exposed red soil, were eventually transformed by human hands and machines into a scene where nature and man-made objects were mixed together, with housing complexes, condominiums, and detached houses being built. This rare book exquisitely expresses the depth of photography, which is both objective and yet also exudes an unusually subjective element, with a sense of history and strangeness in its inorganic landscapes. Comes with a booklet. Limited to 750 copies. Comes with a dust jacket.