Publisher/CamerArt Publications

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"Young Nudes" is a photo book by Masaya Nakamura, one of Japan's leading photographers. Like Nobuyoshi Araki, he worked at the Faculty of Engineering, Chiba University (at that time, Tokyo College of Industrial Arts), then at the Yomiuri Shimbun, World Film Company, and Movie Star Company, and was active as a freelancer. Starting with news photography, he has worked on graph photography, commercial photography, and women's photography to establish "Glamor Photo" that depicts the fascination of women. After that, he established himself as a photographer with the pronoun "nude" as the main battlefield. In 1957, under the leadership of critic Tatsuo Fukushima, along with Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Shomei Tomatsu, Kikuji Kawada, Eikoh Hosoe, Ikko Narahara, and others, the arrival of a new era of photography that set it apart from conventional realism photography. Masaya Nakamura who became one of the members of the historical exhibition "10 Eyes". This book is a collection of early works published by Eikoh Hosoe's maiden work "Otokoto Onna -Man and Woman-" and the same publisher in the same year, and contains a large number of nude works leading to "Nobori". Preface and editing by Koen Shigemori. Since it was a collection of works for overseas sales, all texts are in English.