Publisher/講談社

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"The Hot Days of Harlem" is a photojournalism collection by Japanese photojournalist Ruiko Yoshida (1934-2024) that documents her life and encounters in Harlem, New York, in the late 1960s through photographs and writing. Yoshida, who came to the United States as a Fulbright scholar and studied photojournalism at Columbia University Graduate School, covered racial discrimination, poverty, war, and issues concerning women and children for many years, and was highly regarded as one of Japan's leading photojournalists. This book is a representative work that was photographed and written while living and working alongside the residents of Harlem during the height of the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement. While capturing the harsh realities of poverty, violence, and racial discrimination, it also focuses on the smiles of children, the bonds of family, and the community supported by church and music, depicting Harlem from multiple perspectives. This book, in which photography and reportage are organically intertwined, has received high praise since its publication. It was reissued in 1979 as a Kodansha Bunko edition, and again in 2024 as a Chikuma Shobo (Chikuma Bunko) edition, with a new contribution by journalist Shiori Ito. Even half a century later, it continues to be read as a classic representing Japanese photo-reportage. Comes with dust jacket.