Publisher/新潮社

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"Japan (Signed)" is a photobook by Seiji Kurata, one of Japan's leading photographers. Kurata majored in oil painting at the Tokyo University of the Arts, and after working as an art teacher and in a small factory, he decided to pursue a career as a photographer. He studied as one of the first students at the "Workshop Photography School" founded by Shomei Tomatsu, Nobuyoshi Araki, and Daido Moriyama, and after graduating, he rose to prominence with his solo exhibition "Street Photo Random" in 1979 and his first photobook "Flash Up" the following year, 1980. He is one of Japan's leading photographers. In the 1970s and 80s, he captured the darkness lurking in the city with intense strobe light, focusing on outlaws, and in the 80s and 90s, he explored a strange other world, the "social landscape," within the ordinary everyday life. In both cases, his gaze was cold and objective, yet filled with his unique beauty and, at times, love for humanity, and he continues to be highly regarded as a photographer who pioneered new frontiers in photography. This book is a photo collection published in 1998, comprised of photographs of "Japan" taken by Seiji Kurata from the 1970s to the 1990s. It is a massive volume containing over 400 illustrations. Signed by the photographer .