Publisher/朝日ソノラマ

Google翻訳
"Snow Land (Signed)," a photobook by Japanese photographer Hiroshi Hamaya. Throughout the pre-war and post-war periods, Hiroshi Hamaya was a photojournalist and documentary photographer who continued to photograph the landscape and people living in rural Japan, publishing numerous photographs that sounded the alarm about the problems of those regions. In particular, "Ura-Nihon" (1957), which captured the lives and working conditions of people living on the Sea of Japan side, and "Record of Anger and Sorrow" (1960), a documentary that recorded the entire process of the Anpo protests, are considered masterpieces in the history of Japanese photography. This book is a long-awaited reprint of one of Hamaya's representative works, which is on par with the aforementioned work published in 1956. "Ura-Nihon," the coastal region of the Sea of Japan, attracted Hamaya, who grew up in the urban area of Tokyo on "Omote-Nihon" (front Japan). Hamaya spent many years visiting "Echigo" and "Kuwatori Valley," and eventually settled in Takada, continuing to depict the scenes of harsh winter and the people who live there. A precious record by a great photographer who was devoted to ethnology and continued to capture the landscape and daily lives of Japanese people with a warm gaze. This is a Sonorama edition that has been re-edited with some of the illustrations from the first edition replaced. The commemorative first volume of the 27-volume Sonorama Photo Selection series. First edition. Signed by the photographer .