Publisher/IPC

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"Pictures" is a collection of works by Japanese photographer Yamaguchi Gen. This is the first photo book published by IPC (Inter Press Corporation), a publishing company that closed after a few years, despite leaving behind many masterpieces in the early 1990s, such as Fukase Masahisa's "Family" and "Memories of Father", Takanashi Yutaka's "Visages of a Metropolis", Tsuchida Hiromi's "Party", and Ishiuchi Miyako's "1・9・4・7". Yamaguchi attracted attention for his reportage of socialist countries such as Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union, China, and North Korea, and was the youngest person (23 years old) to win the Newcomer Award from the Photographic Society of Japan at the time. The publication of this book was apparently due to a connection between Yamaguchi and the younger brother of IPC's Nakagawa Usuke, who happened to meet Yamaguchi in the Soviet Union. The book is divided into three parts: Yugoslavia in 1984, China in 1985, and the Soviet Union in 1986-87. This book contains color images of the former Soviet Union, which are now extremely rare.