Ichiro Tsuda - The Location - 1980

“The Location: These Are the Beloved Street Scenes Captured Over Ten Years by a Reluctant Still Photographer for Pink Films!”—a collection of works by Japanese photographer Ichiro Tsuda (b. 1942). Tsuda has been active since the 1960s, working in commercial photography and on film sets. He is known as an artist who captures cities and landscapes with a unique sense of distance, having later won the Domon Ken Award for Nameless Zone. This book is one of his early masterpieces, featuring landscapes around filming locations captured over approximately ten years as he traveled across the country working as a still photographer for pink films. Rather than focusing on the behind-the-scenes of filmmaking, the book highlights the atmosphere of the streets and the presence of people that emerge during breaks in shooting, quietly accumulating anonymous and diverse fragments of the city. Published as part of Banseisha’s “Yagenbura Selected Works” series, this book offers a more multidimensional sense of the era’s atmosphere when read within the context of the series, which explores people and settings on the urban periphery, such as cabarets and taxi drivers. It is a volume that captures the reality of the city streets, where documentation and a personal gaze intersect.