Goze's four seasons (Goze no Shiki) (SIGNED)
Shoko Hashimoto
Goze's four seasons (Goze no Shiki) (SIGNED)
Photographs: Shoko Hashimoto
Publisher: Ongaku No Tomo Sha
79 pages
Year: 1984
ISBN: 4276380065
Comments: Hardcover under dust jacket, 21,6 x 15,5cm, b&w photographs. In very good condition other than traces of use. Signed by Shoko Hashimoto.
From spring 1972 until summer 1973, Shoko Hashimoto traveled around Niigata Prefecture together with a group of goze, blind women entertainers who performed and told stories in exchange for food and shelter. Today, there are no longer goze traveling around. Life was already difficult for the goze in the 1970s, and the continuing industrial, economic and urban developments of postwar Japan have only accelerated since then. Hashimoto’s astonishing photographs document the life of these women. We see them taking baths, relaxing on the floor, sleeping at night, and endlessly roaming from village to village. Hashimoto’s distinct style, which renders the scenes with an almost painterly quality, knows which parts to emphasize: in landscape shots, the scenery appears to almost swallow the women; when faces are involved, the emotions are vivid.
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