Publisher/写真通信社

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The Kazoku is a photobook by Japanese photographer Toshio Yamada (1941-2011). After working in various jobs, Yamada enrolled in the Workshop Photography School (Tomatsu Lighting School) as a member of the first class in 1974. Yamada also exhibited at the gallery PUT, which was later opened in Shinjuku by members of the Tomatsu Lighting School, and Taku Yada, who runs the publisher of this book, Shashin Tsushinsha, also participated. Yada has published many photobooks of photographers of his generation (such as Miyako Ishiuchi and Shinichi Kinugawa). This book has been highly acclaimed since its inception, including being nominated for the Domon Ken Award in 1987, and is a collection of family photographs published in the photo magazine VIEW (1977-1985) in Ashikaga, where Yamada lives. Art journalist Takatoshi Shinoda has written that "a family cannot be expressed in a photograph unless one plays the role of a cold observer, as if collecting photographs of the family's lifestyle," and Yamada captures the natural appearance of wives, children, and mothers (sleeping faces, naked bodies, etc.) in rooms overflowing with the feeling of everyday life. Yamada's novel "Desire," which was published in "VIEW," is also included with the photographs. Edited by Kaneko Ryuichi, binding by Kimura Tsunehisa. (Library stamp on double page spread)