Eiji Aihara - Next Door - 1977

《Next Door》

爱原英二
Nore-sha/1977/Japanese/250*250*10

《Next Door》是日本摄影师爱原英二的摄影集。书中介绍了他以“出生于1970年1940年静冈县相原町，毕业于当地高中，1963年开始经营自己的纺织品生意，至今一直居住在这里”为背景的自述。 apart from the fact that he began photography around 1960 and has been published several times in Asahi Camera, the details of his career are not clear. However, when looking at the illustrations in this book published in 1977, one is drawn to the simplicity and profundity of his work. Published by Norasha, which also published “Ihei Kimura Paris” and “Terutake Hashimoto, Goke” two of the greatest masterpieces in the history of Japanese photography, this collection of works by the golden duo of publisher Kazuo Kitai and editor Norio Osaki is a true masterpiece. As the title suggests, the photographs seem to have been taken in the neighborhood where the photographer lives, and they show a variety of scenes of seemingly ordinary life in the countryside, including overgrown and withered plants and trees, unmaintained dirt roads, wooden houses with a sense of history, Showa-era interiors, fish shops in town, children playing in the river, festival scenes, and so on. The images are full of power and depth, with well-calculated compositions and warm stories embedded within seemingly ordinary scenes of rural life. New Landscape is seen in the ordinary and casual everyday life.