Publisher/roshin books

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"Traces of the City" is a collection of works by Japanese photographer Yanagisawa Shin (1936-2008). This work is a reprint of the original photobook, first published in the magazine Camera Mainichi in 1965 and published by Asahi Sonorama in 1979. The photographs capture Tokyo in the midst of rapid economic growth, dispassionately capturing fragments of the city's rapid transformation, including construction sites, demolished buildings, and people milling about in crowded streets. Yanagisawa eschewed sentimentality and stagecraft, instead calmly observing the city's structure and the accumulation of time itself, capturing these memories with meticulous composition and a hushed tone. The image of Tokyo undergoing repeated scrap-and-build captures both the strength and transience of a city undergoing change, resonating vividly even decades after its publication. This reprint offers a valuable opportunity to rediscover this monumental work in the history of Japanese urban photography. First edition: 900 copies.