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"Urumchi" is a photo book by Hiroshi Hamaya, one of Japan's leading photographers. Hiroshi Hamaya was a pioneering Japanese documentary photographer who has continued to research and focus on Japan's climate and folklore for a long time since the end of the war, and was also the first Japanese contributor to Magnum Photos. Hamaya, who was born and raised in a lively, modernized, economic and industrially developing Tokyo, was born and raised in a pre-war and post-war Tokyo, but when he visited Niigata Prefecture for the first time, he was struck by the disparity in "time" and "culture." Realization. From the 1940s, he traveled along the coast of the Sea of Japan, carefully exploring the harsh climate and the lives of people living under labor, and published the photo book Snow Country (1956). The following year, he published ``Ura-Nihon'' (1957), a masterpiece that has carved its name in the history of photography and has long been highly acclaimed as a ``textbook of photo books.'' Although this book is an early work, it is set overseas, which is rare for Hamaya, and consists of illustrations taken in Urumqi, China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. Although it is overseas, it is a book set in a ``remote'' area in northwest China, which is typical of Hamaya. This is one of the 14-volume "World Photographer Series" published by Heibonsha.