Warabe goyomi / Children the year around

Shoji Ueda
Warabe goyomi / Children the year around

Photographs: Shoji Ueda

Publisher: Chuo koron sha

110 pages

Year: 1971

Comments: Hardcover under dust jacket (missing obi and acetate), 26,5 x 21,7 cm. The inside is in good condition, however the cover has multiple tears and sun damage.

In an era when photographers of the same generation were active around the world, he looked up to his hometown Tottori as the place of his life, and sought avant-garde photographic expression while incorporating the local climate, climate, and culture. Shoji Ueda continued. His works are full of light Japanese emotion and originality, and the number of modern illustrations that are still relevant today are highly acclaimed worldwide. This book is one of the 10-volume series "Eizo no Gendai", which summarizes the works of representative Japanese photographers, and is Shoji Ueda's first photo book. A personal documentary edited throughout the four seasons about the climate of San'in and the people who live there.