Kenji Kanesaka - Super American Dream - 1976

Super American Dream

Kenji Kanesaka
Kodansha/1976/japanese/150*210*15

Our America Super American Dream” is a collection of works by Kenji Kanesaka, a Japanese writer, photographer, and filmmaker. After graduating from Keio University, he began interacting with American filmmakers through an international seminar at Harvard University, which led to frequent trips to the U.S. He came into contact with the essence of the hippie movement, the counterculture created by American youth in the 1960s, and became friends with Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, and Patti Smith, Kenji Kanesaka, a pioneer of “underground writers,” has continued to introduce through his own experiences the deep American culture that Japanese people longed for and were inspired by, through films, photographs, essays, and other media. Kenji Kanesaka has published many films and private documentaries related to the above-mentioned, and in 1968, he published one of the most significant collaborative works in the history of photography, “Underground Generation”. It is a unique book that introduces the unique American culture with illustrations and texts. The book design is also stylish.