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"History of Japanese Photobooks 1956-1986" by Ryuichi Kaneko, a well-known Japanese photobook researcher and photobook collector, and editor Ivan Valtanian. Focusing on domestic photobooks published in the 1960s and 1970s, "Selected and recorded a wide variety of 60 photobooks including rare books and private editions" "Detailed commentary, production process and only the people concerned can know It also contains valuable data on designers, editors, publishers, etc. who were involved in the production, including the inside story that did not exist "(from the publisher). From Hiroshi Hamaya's "Snow Country" (1956) to Daido Moriyama, Takuma Nakahira, Nobuyoshi Araki, Yutaka Takanashi, Issei Suda, Kiyoshi Suzuki ... and Masahisa Fukase's "Kou" (1986), the history of Japanese photobooks. A number of masterpieces that can be called masterpieces in Japan are posted. Kaneko said, "Every photobook made during this period has a strong message,'I am a photographer.'" I think that it is included. We are pursuing expressions that can only be made into photographs, not movies or prints, and that can only be achieved with a photobook that shows a combination of multiple photographs. "