Ken Domon - Les enfants de Chikuho - 1960
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Ken Domon’s photobook Les enfants de Chikuho, 1st edition in Japanese, published by Tokyo: Patria Shoten in 1960, 96 pages, softcover, 25 × 18 cm, in reasonable condition with a small angular crease to the second cover and some foxing.
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"Chikuhô no kodomotachi" is a major historical photography book by Ken Domon (1909-1990), a leading figure of Japanese postwar social realism.
In the late 1950s, the Japanese government changed its energy policy by shifting from coal to oil.
The Chikuhô mining region, formerly the largest coal producer in Japan, suffers sharply from massive shaft closures and mass layoffs. This economic upheaval brutally plunges thousands of mining families into extreme poverty.
Shot in December 1959, this reportage captures, without artifice, the raw reality and daily hardship of declining mining communities.
Ken Domon chose to turn his lens on children to illustrate the social fractures of the nascent Japanese economic miracle.
Angular crease on the second page of the cover.
Some freckles.
No shipments to the United States following the new legislation.
Bibliography:
- Martin Parr & Gerry Badger's: "The Photobook: A History, Volume 1, page 278."
- The Japanese Photobooks 1912-1990, Edition Steidl, page 56.
"Chikuhô no kodomotachi" is a major historical photography book by Ken Domon (1909-1990), a leading figure of Japanese postwar social realism.
In the late 1950s, the Japanese government changed its energy policy by shifting from coal to oil.
The Chikuhô mining region, formerly the largest coal producer in Japan, suffers sharply from massive shaft closures and mass layoffs. This economic upheaval brutally plunges thousands of mining families into extreme poverty.
Shot in December 1959, this reportage captures, without artifice, the raw reality and daily hardship of declining mining communities.
Ken Domon chose to turn his lens on children to illustrate the social fractures of the nascent Japanese economic miracle.
Angular crease on the second page of the cover.
Some freckles.
No shipments to the United States following the new legislation.
Bibliography:
- Martin Parr & Gerry Badger's: "The Photobook: A History, Volume 1, page 278."
- The Japanese Photobooks 1912-1990, Edition Steidl, page 56.
Details
Number of books
1
Subject
Photography
Book title
Les enfants de Chikuho
Author/ Illustrator
Ken Domon
Condition
Fair
Publication year oldest item
1960
Height
25 cm
Edition
1st Edition
Width
18 cm
Language
Japanese
Original language
Yes
Publisher
Tokyo: Patria Shoten
Binding/ Material
Softback
Number of pages
96
