Publisher/Place M

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A photo book of Japanese photographer Seiji Kurata. Since the latter half of the 1970s, he has been wandering around cities centered around Ikebukuro and Shinjuku, and his works, which capture people playing in the nightlife and rough street corners with intense strobe light, reflect the strange and mysterious darkness hidden in the city. They are violent and provocative yet have the beauty of chaos, with human love in their cold and objective gaze, and have been described by the great American photographers as'city hyenas'. It is reminiscent of Weegee and Diane Arbus, who are famous for their portraits of Freaks. Kurata, who has found a new frontier in documentary and photographic art in the plates that depict the various interplay of photographs, has been highly acclaimed worldwide as a photographer who has opened a hole in the Japanese photographic world since the 1980s. Seiji. This is a tabloid compiled by Kurata, who has turned his attention to Asia since Flash Up, with an essay that looks back on his career from the 1970s, while using the illustrations taken here as a motif. Published in conjunction with the Place M exhibition from January 2013. In addition, there is also a proofreading that I put in red in 2015 and a photographer's signature.