Akka Buraku
Hirokazu Ishida
Akka Buraku
Photographs: Hirokazu Ishida
Text: Hirokazu Ishida
Publisher: Shashin Hyoronsha
32 pages
Pictures: 31
Year: 1973
Comments: Stapled softcover, oblong size, 18 by 26cm, b&w photographs richly printed on mat paper. Some stains and colored with a small fold on cover. Extremely rare Japanese photobook.
The second book of the photographer with the same publisher after Baramon to Janta.
In this new opus The photographer documented a north part of Japan called Akka. He photographed the habitants during 10 years, mostly farmers from 1963 to 1973. In this self-sufficient place the technology didn't reach it even during the economical boom in Japan.
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