Publisher/朝日ソノラマ

Google翻訳
"Alaska Eskimo," a photobook by Japanese photographer Yukichi Watanabe. Watanabe is a photographer whose work has been re-evaluated since the publication of his photobooks "A Criminal Investigation" and "Stakeout Diary," documenting police officers investigating murder cases in the 1950s. After the war, he was supported by journalist Shigeru Tamura and worked as a freelancer from the 1950s, traveling both domestically and internationally to conduct interviews. Although many of his works were published in newspapers and magazines, not many of them were published as photobooks. This book is one of the few photobooks that Watanabe left behind during his lifetime, and it is a collection of works taken with the Alaska Eskimos as the setting. For a feature in the inaugural issue of the magazine "Taiyo," he accompanied an Alaska scientific research team and interviewed tribes living primitive lives in the inland and coastal areas. The photographs were taken in the early 1960s, and it took 17 years before they were finally compiled into a photobook. At the time of its publication, the lives of the people in the buraku (outcaste) communities had already been completely modernized, making this a valuable book that captures their little-known daily lives. (Included in The Japanese Photobook 1912–1990)