NIHON MURA 1969-79 (SIGNED WITH OBI)

Shuji Yamada
NIHON MURA 1969-79 (SIGNED WITH OBI)

Photographs: Shuji Yamada

Publisher: Sanseido Co. Ltd.

175 pages

Year: 1979

Price: 400 €

Comments: Hardcover in slipcase and obi, oblong size, 27 x 37,3 cm, first edition, b&w photographs printed full bleed. Layout by Kishin Shinoyama and Arata Isozaki. Signed by Shoji Yamada.

NIHON-MURA [The Japan Village] 1969-79

This book is Yamada's representative work from the 1970s, from landscapes from above to streets from a unique vertical position, from metropolis to depopulated countryside, here is a world that embodies "far from the modern concept of the city, a country where nature goes its own way - 'Japan is a village'" (Taira Shoji). Photographs are composed by Arata Isozaki and Kishin Shinoyama, with a separate volume containing a dialogue between Yamada, Seiji Otsuji and Yutaka Takanashi. (Included in The Japanese Photobook 1912-1990).