Publisher/日本写真企画

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"American West" is a collection of photographs by Hideo Sakurai, a Japanese photographer. After graduating from Tokyo Photography Junior College, he joined VIVO, a photographer group consisting of six members, such as Kikuchi Kawada, Akira Tanno, Hikaru Higashimatsu, Ikko Narahara, Hideko Hosoe and Akira Sato. Hideru Sakurai who has worked on darkroom work as an assistant for each of the six photographers who make a name for himself in Japanese photographic history. After the dissolution of VIVO, Hakuhodo worked on commercial photography and worked as a free member after retirement. This book is a collection of works depicting the western part of the United States that became life work of Sakurai. A dynamic landscape that tells of the nostalgic nature of the West, the vastness of America, and the everyday subtlety, such as a sloppy country town, a cowboy in a classic hat, a majestic landscape of natural beauty interspersed with a city scene like a movie scene, etc. Contains the cut-out monochrome photo. At the beginning of the book, Higashimatsu commented that "the point of view, distance, angle, photo opportunity, etc. are perfectly filled with the structure of the picture and they are powerful."