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Photo book "Terra" by Japanese photographer Toshio Shibata. Toshio Shibata is highly acclaimed worldwide as one of Japan's leading landscape photographers. He is not a landscape photographer who captures the original beauty of nature, but rather a hybrid of artificially transformed natural objects and man-made objects. Civil engineering facilities such as dams and roads, which are made with carefully calculated structures and careful handwork, have the beauty of intersecting straight lines and curves, and the beauty of symmetry and patterns. It stands for "technology". The landscape, which is colored by the contrast between such man-made objects and natural objects, which is never compatible, is also a symbol of Japanese "art" full of formative beauty. While it includes elements of "technology" and "art", it cannot be overlooked that it also has the aspect of "destruction of nature" carried out by human desire for material things. Toshio Shibata's photographs contain glimpses of journalism as well as high artistry and uniqueness of Japan, condensing the multifaceted appeal of photography. This book is the 2nd photo book published following the 1992 Kimura Ihei Award-winning work "Japanese Typical". Edited by Kyoko Yamagishi. First edition published in 1994.