Solitude standing | Ichiro Kojima | Roshin books 2024

Solitude standing | Ichiro Kojima | Roshin books 2024Roshin books publishes the volume Solitude Standing on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Ichiro Kojima's birth. Kojima, whose life and career were very short, passing away suddenly at only 39 years old, always captured in his photographs the hard life of the people who inhabit Tohoku, characterized by a very harsh climate, through his exceptional composition skills and darkroom techniques. This volume was composed by selecting from the

without being on display…” — Lena C

and so I immediately decided to make one book of photographs of Yokohama

I find there is a therapeutic element to the patterns and surprises

"Hisae Imai was an unconventional photographer

Chinese flower-patterned towels

such as "matagi" bear hunters

This is a copy of the 1984 reprint

Some pages have a light crease on the upper right corner

as well as a series of recommendations on photo books with which enrich your collection

Suzuki defines himself as an "amateur photographer" and is a representative of the large amateur photography movement born in post-war Japan and still largely unknown

mostly seen against the light

includes an introduction by Diane Dufour and a critical apparatus consisting of three texts examining the artist's influence in the various territories to which he was linked