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This is a set of issues 1-16 (the final issue is unknown) of the Japanese edition of the photography and visual culture magazine "Zoom," which was founded in France and carries on the same philosophy. Zoom is an important publication when considering the transition from photography magazines to photobook culture. The French edition of "Zoom" featured Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin, William Klein, and others, traversing art, fashion, film, and advertising, presenting photography not merely as a record, but as an edited image space. Its large format, high-quality print, and structure centered on individual photographer features gave it the collectible quality of a photobook, despite being a magazine. The Japanese edition of "Zoom" inherited this editorial philosophy, connecting overseas artists with Japanese photographic expression from a uniquely Japanese perspective, and establishing a position different from both conventional camera technology magazines and graphic magazines. As a turning point from the context of "camera magazines" that focused on equipment and techniques to a medium for reading the image itself, "Zoom" can be said to have foreshadowed the later photobook-like editing. In that sense, one could view it as a lineage where "Zoom" preceded "Camera Mainichi" and "Asahi Camera," which were instrumental in the postwar photography magazine culture, and "Déjà-vu" of the 1990s was an extension of that. "Zoom," conceived as something to "see" rather than "read" despite being a magazine, can be re-evaluated as a medium that played a bridging role towards the culture of photobooks.