Publisher/M.P.S.出版部

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This is a photo collection by Kikujiro Fukushima, one of Japan's leading postwar photographers. While running a watch shop in his hometown of Yamaguchi Prefecture, he spent 10 years as an amateur photographer documenting atomic bomb survivors, and in 1960 he received the Special Prize of the Japan Photo Critics Award for his work "Pikadon: A Record of an Atomic Bomb Survivor." After moving to Tokyo, he turned professional and in the 1960s he covered various conflicts that intensified across the country (security treaty, student movements, the Sanrizuka struggle, pollution, etc.), publishing his work in magazines and weekly publications. He is a true photojournalist who, despite being targeted by the public security police for his radical depictions of "anti-establishment and anti-state" sentiments, being ambushed, wiretapped, and even having his house burned down, remained true to his own style. This book is Fukushima's second photo collection, published in 1969 (the first being "Pikadon"), and documents the harsh repression by the establishment against the escalating student movement. "During my year-long coverage of the student protests, what I was inevitably struck by was the image of a monster called 'power,' raising its enormous head and encroaching upon the campus." (From the text). (Included in The Japanese Photobook 1912–1990)