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River, its shadow of shadows.
Tokyo, Yugensha / Kazuhiko Motomura, 1978
Smith's initial living costs in Japan whilst working on the Minamata project were covered by Motomura Kazuhiko, publisher of Morinaga's River, its shadow of shadows and three books by Robert Frank. Motomura met and befriended Morinaga while studying at the Tokyo College of Photography. Through Morinaga, Motomura met W. Eugene Smith, and then he met Robert Frank through Smith as a favour in return for helping Smith with the Minamata work. Motomura was an important collector of photographs and photography books and a tireless champion of Japanese photographers, promoting their work and supporting their books and exhibitions.
First edition; foilo (300 x 270 mm, 11¾ x 10¾ in); black-and-white photographs, texts by Miyabi Ichikawa, Koichi Tanigawa, Seigow Matsuoka, and Jun Morinaga in Japanese, text by W. Eugene Smith in Japanese and English, design by Kohei Sugiura and Hitoshi Suzuki, occasional light dust speckle marks spotted out by hand by Motomura; grey cloth-covered boards, titles stamped in white on spine and sides, publisher's photo-illustrated paper-covered board slipcase, minor wear to extremities, original shipping carton with staining to one side, fine; [170]pp (incl. 20 folding).
Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and '70s pp218-21; The Japanese Photobook 1912-1990 48.
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