Publisher/東京写真専門学院

Google翻訳
A collection of works by the Japanese photographer Harumi Shishido (Harumi), titled The Mine is Closed. Born in Fukushima Prefecture in 1947, moved to Tokyo in 1968 and entered Tokyo Institute of Photography. After graduation, he worked at the school's laboratory, and this was the first book published by the school as an issuer. Documentary taken in the hometown of Shishido, as indicated by the subtitle "From the Joban Coal Mine Closed Mine". Over the past 70 years, due to the use of inexpensive coal overseas and the shift of major energy from coal to petroleum, mine closures have been occurring nationwide, and many works have been published. However, Shishido captures the end of a place he dreamed of playing as a child. And a sense of relief to be away from the slag heaps, painful work that has lost a vibrant, the anxiety of the future, has been portrayed people to send the day-to-day of endlessly not nihilistic. The book was published in the same year as "Ikureshima-Okinawa" by Yasuo Higa, who was also from the same school, and was used as educational material. By the way, the school publishes the immortal masterpiece of Tamiko Nishimura "Sukishima" the following year.