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"G, BACK" is a photobook by photographer Yoji Ishikawa (1935-), who has consistently captured the female body with his unique aesthetic sense. In the 1990s, Ishikawa successively published works such as "Hip!", "MON AME", and "Aijin Amanda," pursuing an expression that captures the human body not merely as a portrait or nude, but as a form woven from lines, planes, light and shadow. As the title suggests, this book focuses solely on the "back view" of women, depicting the lines of the body from the back to the waist and hips through diverse lighting and composition. While suppressing individuality by not showing faces or expressions, the atmosphere and tension emanating from each woman's posture and demeanor quietly emerge, stimulating the viewer's imagination. Ishikawa's approach, which sought to find new beauty by limiting the viewpoint to a part of the body, can be said to be one of the pinnacles of human expression in Japanese photography in the 1990s. This is a book that meticulously explores the beauty of the form that the body itself possesses, without being limited to eroticism.
