Publisher/マガジンハウス

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"Minna" is a portrait collection by Yasuo Yagi, a Japanese art director and illustrator. Yagi has been deeply involved in music, publishing, and subculture since the 1970s, having designed record jackets for artists such as Haruomi Hosono ("Tropical Dandy," "Tai-an Yoko"), Makoto Kubota, and BO GUMBOS. This book compiles portraits he took between 1985 and 1991 using a Polaroid SX-70 of close friends and contemporary artists. A diverse range of people from music, manga, and entertainment appear in the book, including Kyoko Koizumi, Kyoko Okazaki, Marina Watanabe, Akemi Edo, OTO, Kazufumi Kodama, Donto, and Tomorowo Taguchi. The intimate sense of closeness that arose from Yagi's own presence in the same culture as them, along with the colors and textures that include the serendipitousness unique to Polaroid, reflect the unadorned selves of each person. As the title "Everyone" suggests, this work is not a typical portrait collection of famous people, but rather a record of companions who lived through a certain era together. It is a valuable book that encapsulates Japanese pop/subculture from the late 1980s to the early 1990s, including the human relationships involved.