Publisher/有隣堂

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A collection of works by Japanese photographer Yasuhiro Okumura, "Elegy of Defeat / Yokohama Photo Document." Born and raised in Yokohama in 1914, Yasuhiro Okumura is a native photographer. Tokiwa Toyoko, a photojournalist representing the area and a pioneer among female photographers, is Okumura's wife, known for "Poisonous Flowers of Danger." It is well-known that Tokiwa became absorbed in photography due to Okumura's influence and teachings. In the city of Yokohama, which was under occupation after the end of the war, Tokiwa was a photographer who continued to capture with love the American soldiers, the streetscapes still scarred by the war, and the daily lives of the people living there. He was also active in guiding the next generation of photographers, and was awarded the Yokohama Culture Award in 1984. This book is a collection of records edited with the main motif of American soldiers, women, and children in Yokohama, which became a military base throughout the city after World War II. A documentary of postwar Yokohama, depicting the people struggling to survive in an Americanized city where glamour and misery, despair and hope coexist.