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A collection of works by Japanese photographer Issei Suda "Landscapes with Chimneys". Issei Suda was one of the leading photographers of postwar Japan who passed away in March 2019. Born in 1940, in the 1960s, there was a time when Nobuyoshi Araki and the monthly camera magazine were sweeping the same year, and it seems that Araki has been a prominent figure since that time. Behind the scenes of the postwar period of high economic miracle, Issei Suda portrayed the actual situation from a folkloric perspective in a situation where many cultures and customs were lost and his identity was collapsing. The magical depiction using 6x6 makes you feel the atmosphere of a different world that is sometimes eerie and horrifying, creating a unique world view where everyday and extraordinary intersect. This book is a collection of works composed of landscapes with the motif of "chimney". Suda said that he had been familiar with him since he was a child because his father ran a slate company (also used as a chimney material), and he released the shutter every time he found a chimney. The number of buildings increased and the number of chimneys decreased as the economy grew, and the meaning of collecting photographs of chimneys, which are now rare to find, was also a nostalgia for the Showa era. This is the last book I have compiled since I was alive.