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"River: Accumulated Shadows (With Shipping Box)" is a photobook by Japanese photographer Jun Morinaga (1937-2018). Morinaga is also known for having worked as an assistant to Eugene Smith, the American photographer who brought the Minamata disease caused by pollution to the world's attention. He graduated from the Department of Photography at Nihon University College of Art in 1960, joined the photography department of Iwanami Film Productions in 1961, and became Eugene Smith's assistant in 1962. In 1969, he held a solo exhibition, "Moment Monument," and the following year received the Japan Photo Critics Association Newcomer Award. Since then, he has regularly published his work. This book is Morinaga's first photobook and consists mainly of illustrations taken of rivers (which were polluted rivers at the time) in Tokyo. The photographs were taken in the early 1960s and depict the muddy and oily, sluggish river surfaces, the carcasses of fish and other animals, and the riverbanks. With its unique visual style reminiscent of monochrome abstract paintings, and book design by Kohei Sugiura, who also worked on Kikuji Kawada's "Map," this is arguably one of the finest photobooks ever created. "No real people appear in the photographs contained here. Yet, to me, the various undercurrents of resentment of our time seem to swirl persistently within these photographs" (Eugene Smith). Comes with a shipping box.