Publisher/蒼穹舎

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A collection of works by Japanese photographer Shigeru Yamazaki, "View of Shitamachi Tokyo 1974-1977". Born in Yokohama in 1951, he worked for Nikon and was also involved in assembling SLR cameras. In the 1970s, he would wander around Tokyo and Yokohama on his days off, taking photos and submitting them to monthly photo magazines. He stopped taking photos when he was in his 30s, but started again when he was in his 60s. Since the 2010s, he has published works centered on illustrations taken in the 1970s, such as "Gentlemen and Ladies of the Downtown Area", "Bench & Chair", "Station & Station Areas - 1970s", "Bench & Chair II", "That Summer Day", and "Weekend Tokyo 1974-77", and has published collections from Sokyusha and Place M. Tokyo has changed completely and become a city of buildings, but in the past, the labyrinth-like alleys were filled with quaint buildings and the rich lives of ordinary people, and Yamazaki's many snapshots of them are now extremely valuable. This book is composed of images of Tokyo's "downtown" and, as the photographer himself writes in the afterword, he, like the master of downtown photography, Mitsugu Onishi, writes, "Showa-era Tokyo was a wonderland wherever you photographed it, and it was interesting." Design by Katsuya Kato.