Publisher/Frog

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This is a photo information magazine published by the photo gallery "Frog (Film Round Gallery)" in Yotsuya since the early 1990s. From January 1989 to October 1991, the last monthly issue is 34 issues in total. It was published. After that, "Frog" stopped being an information magazine and continued to work as a "mole" mainly for planning and managing photo exhibitions and publishing photo books, and was the centerpiece of independent galleries in the 1990s. By the way, the predecessor of "Frog" was a free space called "Luna House", where a group run by several photographer members called YCM (Yotsuya Conte Polarly Museum) held various special exhibitions. "Frog Letter / Frog Gazette" contains an introduction to the photo exhibition held at this gallery, as well as essays and papers by photographers and critics. It started with the first issue, Shinzo Shimao, and Shiroyasu Suzuki. , Shunji Ito, Kiyoji Otsuji, etc., and Ryuichi Kaneko and Kotaro Iizawa also regularly serialized, and Kaneko explained the masterpieces of the photo book. Although it has a strong "reading material" element, it is a very valuable information magazine to know the efforts and trends of "contemporary" photographers in the 90's. Luna House free papers No.1 to No.13 are also included (however, No.9 is missing).