Publisher/自治日報社

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"Narcotic '61→'72 Reward of Pleasure (Signed)," a photobook by Kazuo Kenmochi, one of Japan's leading postwar photographers. Believing that one of a photographer's jobs is to expose the reality of narcotics, which he called "drugs = magic drugs," and contribute to their eradication, he visited the Ministry of Health and Welfare's Narcotics Division in 1960 and began his research. This "government-approved" book was published more than 10 years later. During that time, in order to prevent the explicit depiction of the faces and appearances of suspects and drug users, he used the camera's mechanism to change their expressions, forms, and characteristics to those of completely different people, achieving a transformation so great that even the subjects themselves did not recognize them. This book can be called a masterpiece of documentary work born from his strong journalistic conviction and artistic sensibility. It is larger in size than his earlier work "Narcotic Photographic Document (1963)," and the fact that it is a print by Gravure Seikosha is also appealing. Comes with a dust jacket. Signed by the photographer . (Included in The Japanese Photobook 1912–1990)