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A photo book by Eikoh Hosoe, a leading Japanese photographer, "Man and Woman (First Edition)". Through collaboration with artists such as writer Yukio Mishima ("Killed by Roses") and dancer Tatsumi Hijikata ("Kamaho"), you can freely explore the problems of "life" and "sex" hidden in the depths of human beings. Eikoh Hosoe, who worked hard on experimental photographic expression. The work that embraces the conceptual style and Japanese elements is said to be one of the things that made postwar Japanese photography recognized by the world. This book is Eikoh Hosoe's 1st photo book, and won the Japan Photo Critics Association New Face Award at his solo exhibition in 1960. According to the photographer, "I tried to capture a human drama in the dark, a ritual in a closed room." And an excerpt from the writer Seicho Matsumoto, "A world where you can feel strange illusions. Maybe he is trying to find out the truth of human beings with its poetic composition by raising the most modern emptiness." .. An early masterpiece by Eikoh Hosoe, who released his body into a naked object and extracted a drama in which two sexes antagonized with a vivid contrast. A reprint was published in 2006, but this is the first edition published in 1961.