Publisher/白水社

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A photo book "Children" by Shigeo Gocho (1946-1983), one of Japan's leading photographers after the war. Legendary photographer Shigeo Gocho passed away at the age of 36. Kuwasawa Design aspired to become a graphic designer, but Kiyoji Otsuji, who was teaching him the basics of photography, discovered his extraordinary talent and began aiming to become a photographer. Published a collection of works. During his lifetime, he received only a limited evaluation in the photography world, but from the late 1980s to the 1990s, he was re-evaluated at numerous exhibitions and in the mass media, and is now regarded as one of Japan's foremost contemporary photographers. It has reached the point where Having a handicap since childhood, he has a sensitive mentality, and his snapshots and portraits captured with a sharp objectivity and subjectivity that looks at himself and others show love, friendship, admiration, fear, loneliness, and empathy. Such deep human emotions are depicted, and even in the simple illustrations, there is something that strongly attracts and impresses. This book is a book that focuses on "children", which can be said to be the "central" motif of Gocho's works. Gocho, who has been ill since childhood, is a series of heartfelt portraits of children, stared at like a "self-portrait of his own desires."