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"Landscapes (With OBI)" is a photo collection by Japanese photographer Norio Kobayashi. He is considered a pioneer of the "New Topographics" movement, which includes American photographers Robert Adams and Louis Bolz. His 1993 book "First Light" won him the 18th Kimura Ihei Award. This is his first collection, a privately published work, and the winner of the Photographic Society of Japan's Newcomer Award. The collection features landscape photographs capturing the transformation of Tama New Town, a suburb of Tokyo. The color plates, which at first glance resemble ordinary catalog photos, capture the changing history of the suburbs. Old houses made of corrugated iron and thatch were demolished, forests collapsed, and the hills, which had become "desertified" with exposed red soil, were eventually transformed by human hands and machines into a landscape where nature and man-made structures intermingle, with housing complexes, condominiums, and single-family homes built. This rare book exquisitely expresses the depth of the photographs, which are both objective and exude an extraordinary subjective quality, with a sense of history and strangeness residing within these inorganic landscapes. Includes a booklet. Limited to 750 copies. Includes dust jacket.