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"Northern (Second Printing, With OBI)" is a photo book of Daido Moriyama, one of Japan's leading photographers. This book is a collection of photographs published in conjunction with the exhibition "Introduction to Hokkaido" held in 2009 at the Sapporo Miyanomori Museum and other parts of Hokkaido. Moriyama, who stayed in Hokkaido for three months in 1978, had been sleeping in cardboard for nearly 30 years without printing a large number of negatives he had taken, except for contributing a part of it to a camera magazine. The exhibition began in Hokkaido in June 2009, and has continued in Hokkaido since then ("Chapter 2 / Development" and "Final Chapter"), and three volumes of the "Northern" series have been published, including this book. I am. It seems that he had gone to Hokkaido on a one-off basis before 1978, but since "Goodbye Photographs" (1972), the reality of his own photographs has diminished, and Moriyama, who is in a slump, arrives through "Tono". It was Hokkaido. Many of the snaps with strong regional characteristics such as the northern land and the Ainu have downtown areas, but it seems that the life of Hokkaido oozes out in the cold scenery and simple daily life. An interview with Moriyama is also included at the beginning. Second printing. With obi.