史上最詳細記錄！516頁、收錄超過3500幅圖片，完整闡述日本近代攝影史近八十年的發展軌跡！
本書由日本當代最具權威的攝影史專家金子隆一，與資深攝影書編輯Manfred Heiting合力製作，探討日本攝影書自1912年至1990年，近八十年間的發展歷史。
從早期受歐美畫意攝影主義影響，經歷德國包浩斯與軍事主義宣傳，再到1945年日本的全面崩潰與破壞，然後又是一個新時代的嶄新開始：1968年創刊的《PROVOKE》雜誌那些顛覆傳統的作品，失焦、以日常生活為題材，呈現當時人們的不安，並隨之形成一股風潮，對二十世紀70、80年代的媒體，產生了深遠影響。
這本巨著共516頁，收錄超過3500幅圖片，完整闡述日本近代攝影史，是一套完整又詳細的經典巨著。(文/博客來編譯)
From pictorialism to Provoke: the most extensive history of Japanese photobooks ever published
The Japanese Photobook, 1912–1990 illustrates the development of photography as seen in photo publications in Japan--from the early influence of European and American pictorialism, the German
Bauhaus and imperial military propaganda to the complete collapse and destruction of the country in 1945. Then followed a new beginning: with the unique self-determination of a young generation
of photographers and visual artists highlighted by the Provoke style--an experimental Japanese photography magazine that had a profound effect on the medium in the 1970s and ‘80s--as well as
protest and war documentation of the late 1950s to the early ‘70s, the signature Japanese photobook, as we have come to know it, was born.
Edited by Manfred Heiting, who has also designed and edited extensive surveys of German and Soviet photobooks, the volume is over 500 pages and features such photographers as Yoshio Watanabe,
Akira Hoshi, Hayao Yoshikawa, Shinichi Kato, Yasuo Wakuda, Tetsuo Kitahara, Moriyama Daido, Koji Taki, Takuma Nakahira, Yutaka Takanashi, Kimura Ihei, Hamaya, Katura, Kazano, Kikuti, Mituzumi,
Watanabe, Yamahata, Sozo Okada and Kazano Karuo, among many others.
With detailed information and illustrations of over 400 photo publications, an essay by Ryuichi Kaneko, the leading historian of Japanese photobooks, and contributions from Duncan Forbes,
Matthew S. Witkovsky and others, this is the most extensive English-language survey of Japanese photobooks of this period and a crucial step in making the history of Japanese photography--long
neglected by the Western canon--accessible to the English-speaking world.
