Dear Old Days | Ryoji Akiyama | Seisodo 2019 [REPRINT] Mariko Kawana ) "Japan Somewhere" travels both

) "Japan Somewhere" travels both figuratively and literally into Japan’s back alleys

seeking to preserve and document the past

1950s and Walk with Soames

sharing an elevator

and the various elements that are accumulated in that receptacle to form the masks

Dear Old Days | Ryoji Akiyama | Seisodo 2019 [REPRINT] Mariko Kawana ) "Japan Somewhere" travels both"The original edition of this book was first published in 1983. The Japanese photographic film maker Konica (then Konishiroku Photo Industry) commissioned Ryoji Akiyama to visit China for shooting, as a sales effort to enter the Chinese market. The support of the China Photographers' Association enabled Akiyama to travel around China extensively in 1981 and 1982, when the Cultural Revolution had only ended few years ago and the country was largely