Publisher/AIM Press

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This is a collection of works by Japanese photographer Yamashita Haruo (1923-1993). Born in Kashiwara City, Osaka Prefecture in 1923, Yamashita Haruo served as a Kashiwara City Council member for four years from 1985. In 1968, he joined the Osaka Kogei Club, where he studied photography under Takeji Iwamiya, who had once studied under such representative postwar Japanese photographers as Daido Moriyama and Seiryu Inoue, and whose members included Yasushi Sugino, Kimio Aoki, and Eiji Arino. In the 1970s, he exhibited at the Nikaten Exhibition almost every year and was selected for the exhibition. This book, published as a posthumous collection thanks to the generosity of his wife and fellow photographers, contains the first half of works selected for the Nikaten Exhibition, and the second half is a collection of imaginary landscapes compiled under the title "Japan." Yamashita was nicknamed "Cat Yamashita" for his many years of creating works of cats, and it was apparently his cat works that impressed Iwamiya. These are not cute animal photographs, but rather a collection of wonderful black-and-white works by Haruo Yamashita, who, like Masahisa Fukase, has pursued cats as a form of self-reflection. Text by Eiji Arino and others.