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Volume 33 of Iwanami Shoten's "Japanese Photographers" series features Japanese photographer Kikuji Kawada (1933-). Kawada is known as a photographer who greatly redefined postwar Japanese photography, having formed the photography group "VIVO" in 1959 with Shomei Tomatsu, Eikoh Hosoe, and Ikko Narahara. His representative work, "Map," in particular, weaves together fragmentary and symbolic images of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, memories of the occupation, and the scars remaining in the ruins, and is still talked about today as an important work in the history of Japanese photography. This book, edited by photographers who lived during the same era, including Shigeichi Nagano, introduces Kawada's major series, such as "Sacred World," "Last Cosmology," and "Car Maniac," centered on "Map." From the composition of images based on deep blacks and his unique visual sense that moves between documentary photography and abstract expression, the anxiety and wavering of memories lurking in the postwar era itself emerge. Published in the 1990s amidst a resurgence of interest in Japanese photography both domestically and internationally, this book stands out as a testament to the unique and distinctive nature of Kikuji Kawada's work within this series.