Publisher/Zen Foto Gallery

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A photo collection by Japanese photographer Seiji Kurata, "AKB 80's (Signed)". Since the late 1970s, he has wandered around the city, mainly in Ikebukuro and Shinjuku, and his works, which he captured with intense strobe light people playing in night entertainment districts and rough street corners, depict the strange and mysterious darkness lurking in the city. His violent and provocative works are infused with the beauty of chaos, and his cold, objective gaze is filled with human love, evoking the great American photographer Weegee, who was described as a 'hyena of the city', and Diane Arbus, famous for her portraits of freaks. The illustrations depicting the diverse interweaving of photographs have opened up new frontiers in documentary and photographic art, and Seiji Kurata has been highly acclaimed worldwide as a photographer who has opened up a new world of possibilities in the Japanese photography world since the 1980s, and has been highly regarded by Araki and Moriyama since his time. This book is composed of early works from the late 1980s, part of Kurata's life work "Urban Formation" series, which he has been working on for nearly 20 years from the late 1980s to around 2008. Unlike traditional snapshots, this book contains black and white photographs that make full use of multiple exposures. Limited to 700 copies. Signed by the photographer .