Publisher/遊人工房

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"Harajyuku Rhapsody" is a photobook by Japanese photographer Shuichi Fujita (1923-). Fujita has an unusual background, having pursued photography while working as a doctor and researcher. In this book, he vividly captures the lives of young people who gathered in Harajuku in the early 2000s. The young people, dressed in diverse styles such as Gothic, Punk, Visual Kei, and Lolita, may at first glance appear to be a record of glamorous street culture, but Fujita's gaze is not simply directed at trends or eccentricity. As he writes in the afterword, "the fragile and fleeting beauty of human beings wounded by time," the book is underpinned by a quiet empathy for the inner lives of young people fluctuating within the times and for the fleeting, brilliant radiance of life. This book is a collection of personal and lyrical portraits of Tokyo, written by a photographer from a generation that has witnessed Japan's postwar period since its high economic growth, capturing the "sparks of living people" he encountered in Harajuku, Tokyo, in the 2000s. It is distinct from the street snap culture that followed "FRUiTS."