Publisher/マガジンハウス

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"Toward Winter (Third Printing, With OBI)" is a photobook by Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki. The book consists of vertical photographs of the streets of Tokyo taken in 1989. The blurb on the cover reads, "An homage to all living things and things that perish, taken while gazing at the shadow of death approaching his beloved wife, Yoko." Yoko was diagnosed with uterine sarcoma in the summer of 1989 and hospitalized, and passed away in January 1990. During this period, buildings such as the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building were being constructed one after another throughout the city, and the Tokyo landscape that Araki, who grew up in the downtown area, knew was disappearing. It is a sentimental photobook that seems to intertwine the death of his wife and the death of the city. The following is from the text by Toshiharu Ito at the end of the book: "Nobuyoshi Araki has consistently captured the deep emotions and unconscious of Tokyo, a city that is constantly undergoing transformation. His photographs, while seemingly ordinary scenes of Tokyo, reveal various relationships between Araki as an individual and the city of Tokyo, as well as the foundations that make up Araki's body and mind as a person. His experiences and emotions are inextricably intertwined with Tokyo, and synchronize with the transformation of Tokyo itself." Third printing.