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"The Ship of Fools: Tokyo, 1986-1988" is a collection of photographs by leading Japanese photographer Suzuki Kiyoshi. Of the eight photobooks he published during his lifetime, all but one were self-published. Disregarding commercial, technical, and time constraints, Suzuki was an artist who maintained an extraordinary commitment to the creation of his photobooks, editing and designing them himself. Taking themes such as recollection, reverie, travel, and literature as his subject matter, Suzuki created conceptual works by meticulously editing exceptional snapshots into multilayered sequences. Suzuki's students included renowned photographers currently active, such as Kanemura Osamu, Hara Mikiko, and Yoshino Erika, and he also served as an educator. This is Suzuki's fifth collection and the only one not self-published. It is a compilation of his work, originally serialized in the magazine "Monthly Shokun!" for two years from 1986, with the addition of several Polaroids. These photographs of Tokyo at the end of the Showa era were based on the enduring question: "Is Tokyo a paradise? Are those who live there happy?" The color depictions and composition are imbued with Suzuki's unique "incomprehensibility" and "infinite expansion."