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"Photobook Shiro Nanbara 1970–1985" is a photobook by Japanese editor Shiro Nanbara (1946–). His real name is Aya Ushioda. Nanbara, the sister of photographer Tokuko Ushioda, known for her masterpiece "Refrigerator," is known for serving as editor-in-chief of the magazine "Monthly OUT," and later worked on magazines such as "Alan," "Gekko," "Bokka Melon," and "Lucky Horror Show," and was an active editor in the subculture publishing scene of the 1970s and 80s. He was also a person who continued to create magazines that were not bound by existing frameworks during an era when independent publishing culture and cult magazines were spreading. This book is a collection of photographs that he took personally in parallel with his editorial work, and includes works from 1970 to 1985. It is thought that this is the only photobook published under the name Nanbara, but he also published a photobook called "Blown by the Wind" under his real name, Aya Ushioda, so it can be said that this book is at the intersection of his activities as an editor and his private photographic production. The photographs, capturing cityscapes, people, and fragments of everyday life, quietly reveal the atmosphere of cities and culture in the 1970s and 80s.