Seiji Kurata - Japan - 1988

Japan

Seiji Kurata
Shinchosha/1988/japanese/200*150*40/

Japan" is a collection of photographs by Seiji Kurata, one of Japan's leading photographers. Seiji Kurata majored in oil painting at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, and after working as an art teacher and at a local factory, he began to aspire to become a photographer. He studied at the Workshop School of Photography, which was led by Shomei Tomatsu, Nobuyoshi Araki, and Daido Moriyama. After graduation, Kurata made a name for himself with his solo exhibition “Street Photorandom” in 1979 and his first photo book “Flash Up” in 1980. In the 70's and 80's, he captured the darkness lurking in the city with intense strobe light, and in the 80's and 90's, he explored the “social landscape,” the strange other world in the midst of ordinary daily life, all with a cool and objective eye, In the 80's and 90's, he explored “social landscapes,” a strange other world in the midst of the mundane everyday. This book, published in 1998, is a collection of photographs of “Japan” taken by Kurata Seiji from the 1970s to the 1990s. 400 illustrations are included in this large book.