Publisher/ダゲレオ出版

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Solo is a photo collection by leading Japanese poet Shuntaro Tanikawa. Renowned as a picture book author, Tanikawa's work is known for its deep connection to illustration, but his collaborations with photography are also diverse. His most famous work is the photopoetry collection "Ehon" (Picture Book), self-published in 1956 in a limited edition of 300 copies and featured in photography historian Ryuichi Kaneko's "History of Japanese Photobooks 1956-1986" (revised and republished in 2010). His other works, including "The Sky in Photography," "50 Trees" (photographed by Yasutaka Tanji), and "Portraits of Children" (photographed by Tsunehiko Momose), are also well-known. However, this book, "Solo," is a surprisingly little-known masterpiece. This is a rare photobook that contains no poetry whatsoever. Renting a small room in Tokyo for work, he felt lonely, but was inspired by the various things around him, capturing what he saw and felt at the time on camera, creating a photo essay that spun visually like an image poem (words). This conceptual book is a mix of not only photographs but also many quotations. Obi is missing.