濱谷浩写真集成展,1930-1981 = Hiroshi Hamaya: Fifty Years of Photography

Tokyo: PPS Tsūshinsha, 1981. First edition. Oblong quarto (9" x 10-1/4"). (8), 38, (2), 9, (13)pp. Title in English and Japanese. Text in Japanese except for a 1 page appreciation at rear by Robert L. Kirschenbaum which is in Japanese and English. Photographic wrapper, spine lettered in brown. Illustrated with 32 color plates and numerous black & white photos. Very minor bumping at fore-corners.

"One of the most renowned Japanese photographers of the 20th century, Hiroshi Hamaya captured gripping images of people and landscapes in rural Japan (truncated) for more than two decades. His black-and-white photographs communicate tacit truths about post-war relations between Japan and the United States. Hamaya, who learned how to take photographs as a teenager, started working as a freelance photographer in 1937 after one of his photos was published in Home Life magazine. He traveled extensively throughout Japan and globally during his career and was the first Japanese photographer to join Magnum Photos, the international photography cooperative..." (Getty Museum). (Inventory #: 51121)