Hiromi TSUCHIDA
"New Counting Grains of Sand"
Pages: 160 / photos: 160
Size: 298x300x20mm / hardcover
Price: 8,190JPY
Release Date: June 2005
Limited edition with an original print
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A new version of Tsuchida's Suna wo kazoeru ("Counting Grains of Sand") which was published in 1990 and comprised black and white photographs taken from the mid-1970's until 1989. In this new version published in 2005, Tsuchida supplements the original photographs from the original book with color images shot on the same theme, that of crowds and public spaces, that he took from 1995 to 2004.
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Hiromi TSUCHIDA
"Zokushin"
Pages: 240 / photos: 115
Size: 299x297x23mm / hardcover
Price: 7,875JPY
Release Date: May 2004
Limited edition with an original print
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This 2004 republication of Hiromi Tsuchida's seminal and long out of print Zokushin (1976) is not merely a reprinting of the original, but a new look 30 years later, better printed and including about 10 new photos.
From 1968 to 1975, during a time of accelerated political, societal and economic change in Japan and a growing affluence, Tsuchida turned his lens to the people seeming left behind, the older generations, and the rural populace. As Kazuhiko Komatsu writes in the accompanying essay (available in both Japanese and English):
Some may see ZOKUSHIN as just a record of the ways and habits of a few people as they lived in the 1970's, in a few corners of rural Japan. They would see nothing "ethereal" at all. I must say I feel sorry for such people, and wonder what may be missing from their lives. How can one look -- really look -- at these faces, bodies, arms, legs, postures, gestures, and not recognize what it means to live ? How can one not be drawn in and deeply moved?
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Hiromi TSUCHIDA
"Hiroshima Monument II"
Pages: 114
Size: 268x262x15mm / hardcover
Price: 3,873JPY
Release Date: July 1995
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This is Tsuchida's 3rd book on Hiroshima, and second to feature places and buildings close to the epicenter of the 1945 atomic bombing. In the early 90s Tsuchida returned to Hiroshima to re-photograph places he had shot in the late 70s, from the exact vantage point as the earlier photographs. These are placed side by side on opposite pages. While one would think that 12-13 years wouldn't make a big difference, in fact the opposite seems true more often than not.
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