Publisher/自治日報社

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"Narcotic'61→'72 Reward of Pleasure (With OBI)" is a photo collection by one of Japan's leading postwar photographers, Katsuo Kenmochi. He called narcotics "magic drugs" and believed that one of the photographer's jobs was to expose their reality and contribute to their eradication. In 1960, he visited the Ministry of Health and Welfare's Narcotics Division and began his research. This "government-approved" book was published more than 10 years later. During that time, in order to prevent the faces and figures of suspects and drug users from being depicted too candidly, he used the camera's mechanism to change the facial expressions, morphology, and characteristics of the suspects and drug users to completely different ones, so that even the suspects and drug users would not recognize them. This is a masterpiece of documentary work born from the strong convictions and artistic sensibility of a journalist. It is larger in size than his earlier work "Magic Drug Fort Document -Narcotic Photographic Document- (1963)" and is also attractive in that it is printed by Seikosha Gravure. Comes with a dust jacket. (Included in The Japanese Photobook 1912–1990)