Publisher/彩流社

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A collection of works by Japanese photographer Koei Iijima, "Kanryu Tsugaru no Onna / Echigo / Yukishita Yujo". Born in Tokyo in 1942, after graduating from Tokyo Polytechnic University, studied under Kira Sugiyama, a pioneer of nude photography, and became independent. Koei Iijima, who has made a name for himself with the appearance and portrait works of painters and celebrities such as Japanese-style painter Shoko Uemura, Tatsuo Takayama, and Toichi Kato, is the masterpiece of the document, "Kanryu". In the 1970s, under the theme of "climate" and "human beings", he entered the heavy snowfall area of Tohoku, which was closed by snow, and recorded people who lived positively and kindly while suffering from snowstorms, cold weather and poverty. At the same time, I also took pictures with the theme of "woman" living on the Tsugaru Peninsula, and portrayed people who lived strong, kindly and beautifully, fighting nature behind the economic growth of Japan, reminiscent of Hiroshi Hamaya. Is the "cold current" series. In addition, as a sister edition, "Warm Current" on the theme of the climate and people of Okinawa and Yaeyama Islands is also published at the same time.