photobook
- Museum number
- 2007,3007.136
- Title
- Object: Ningen no tochi 人間の土地 (Human Land)
- Description
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Photobook. One volume. First edition.
- Production date
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1987
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1956 (ca., original photos)
- Dimensions
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Height: 29.30 centimetres (covers)
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Width: 23.80 centimetres (covers)
- Curator's comments
- The first complete publication of images taken for Narahara's first exhibition held in May 1956. It combines two documentaries of people living in extreme conditions: One is of a mining village on an artificial island called 'Warship Island (Gunkan-jima). It is 480 metres long and 160 meters wide housing almost five-thousand miners and their families. The other shows the community of Kurokami village, living in the vicinity of an active volcano without any access to ground-water. “The exhibition, almost as if announcing a new age of photography in Japan, left a fresh, invigorating impression on those who saw it.” (Fukushima Tatsuo: The Time within Times. p. [v]). Only one copy in OCLC. (Titus Boeder, 4/07)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2007
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 2007,3007.136
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: PB.134 (Photobook number)