Publisher/新潮社

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"The Dirty Door: A Photo Collection of Noriko Hamada" is a collection of works by Japanese painter and photographer Kuniyoshi Kaneko (1936–2015). Known for his fantastical and aesthetic paintings, Kaneko has similarly pursued images in his photography as artificially constructed stages rather than capturing reality. While Noriko Hamada is the subject of this book, the photographer consistently maintains control of the gaze, and Kaneko's distinctive aesthetic is strongly evident in the composition, pose, and use of light. The body is treated not as a portrait of an individual, but as a form that projects desire and narrative, positioned with a sense of continuity that is contiguous with paintings, illustrations, and stage art. Rather than being directly sensual, the photographs exude a somewhat surreal, theatrical tension, demonstrating that Kaneko's world remains unwaveringly present even through the medium of photography.