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"The Innocent Age" by American photographer Henry Diltz. Diltz was at the heart of the Los Angeles music scene in the 1960s and 1970s, capturing the everyday lives of his peers and friends in a naturalistic manner. His work, characterized by a personal and intimate distance, differs from both star photography and news photography. This 1990 photobook focuses not on decisive moments onstage or displays of fame, but on moments between rehearsals and the everyday. The people depicted in the photographs exist not as "symbols of the era" but as neighbors sharing the same atmosphere, quietly evoking the idealism and sense of community of the time. While his later book, "Unpainted Faces" (2012), reconstructs contemporary photographs from a different editorial perspective, this work marks its origin, conveying a time when documentation and friendship coexisted in an undifferentiated state. In terms of the history of photography, this book is positioned in the lineage of private documents that distance themselves from the gaze that consumes counterculture from the outside, capturing everyday life shared from the inside, and continues to quietly question the meaning of preserving the image of people before fame.