Publisher/朝日新聞社

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Japanese photographer Ihei Kimura's photo book "Journey to China (With OBI)". Ihei Kimura is a pioneer of Japanese photography who has been active since before the war. From the news photo in "Nippon Kobo" with Yonosuke Natori and others, to the female portrait symbolized by Hideko Takamine and others, and the snaps that are compared with Bresson and Doisneau, etc. Fashionable photographer Ihei Kimura. This book is a collection of works published two months after his death. A number of Ihei Kimura-like plates that capture the facial expressions of the Chinese people and the humans that emerge from them. According to Kishin Shinoyama's comment below, "I only press one or two shutters. And it's very natural and always close to a good position, which is very close to a divine technique. China that I saw for the first time last year. Kimura Ihei's photography technique. He blends in with the people, sees and records things from the side of the common people, and his eyes do not change from beginning to end. He falls into the propaganda of the politician and is subservient. There is no China here that has been distorted into a sword. The smart, gentle and mean eyes of Mr. Kimura gave birth to this masterpiece. "