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Bi-Monthly Photographix Super G, a photography magazine published in Japan in the early 1990s, was a small but unique publication that ceased publication after only four issues. Unlike typical glamour magazines, while focusing on nudes and portraits, it also emphasized the photographer's individuality and the magazine's layout itself, giving it the characteristics of a photobook despite being a magazine. Importantly, as seen in the participation of Shoji Ueda and Takashi Homma, it functioned as a space to explore the boundary between commercial publishing and photographic expression. Following Zoom in the 1980s, the 1990s saw a rise in art-oriented photography publications, exemplified by deja-vu, but Super G belongs to a different lineage, and can be read as a peripheral medium that intersected glamour, subculture, and an underground editorial sensibility. Although its publication period was short and it ended after only four issues, it is highly valuable as a concentrated record of the atmosphere of the time, and is now considered one of the magazines that should not be overlooked when considering Japanese photography culture of the 1990s.
