Publisher/東京都写真美術館

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Theatrum Mundi is a photo book by Kikuji Kawada, one of Japan's leading photographers. Kikuji Kawada is a member of the photographer collective "VIVO" with Shomei Tomatsu, Ichitaka Narahara, Hideki Hosoe, Akira Sato, and Akira Tanno, and can be said to be one of the leaders of the recent worldwide trend in postwar Japanese photography. Compared to his overwhelming popularity and name recognition, he has published only a few photo books, but in recent years he has published ``Memories of a Distant Place 1951-1966'' and ``Last Cosmology'', as well as ``The Last Cosmology'', which is considered a monumental work in the history of Japanese photography. New editions of ``Map'' have been announced one after another, and it is once again attracting attention. This book is a collection of catalog works published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in 2003.In addition to introducing the representative work ``Map'' by illustrations and pages, including dummy versions, Also included are Sacred World and Last Cosmology.