Benhai gawa wo koete / Vuot Qua Ben Hai

Bunyo Ishikawa
Benhai gawa wo koete / Vuot Qua Ben Hai

Photographs: Bunyo Ishikawa

Text: Katsuichi Honda

Publisher: Asahi shinbunsha

164 pages

Year: 1974

Price: 45 €

Comments: Hardcover with dust jacket, 21 x 18,5 cm. Text in Japanese. (a lot of text compare to the images). In good condition, apart from a few signs of wear on the cardboard beneath the dust jacket and a small mark left by the price sticker that has been removed from the first page.

Bunyo Ishikawa (1938-) is a photographer born in Okinawa. In 1964, when Ishikawa, who quit the movie company every day and was on a “no-money trip”, stayed in Hong Kong, the “Gulf of Tonkin Incident” occurred, which led the United States to deepen full-scale intervention in the Vietnam War. From the following year, Ishikawa joined the United States Marine Corps as a military photographer, began shooting the Vietnam War, and even after returning to Japan, he continued to photograph the area. This exhibition focuses on photographs taken when Ishikawa was staying in Vietnam.