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turning his lens to the landscapes and everyday lives of communities in Japan’s snow country along the Sea of Japan coast

and finally photography—Yamaguchi uses the medium of photography as a canvas

begins to resemble a sprawling city in its own right

Her work was famously featured on the cover of The Tokyo Tower of Sympathy by Rie Kudan

but as "inevitable

PORTRAIT btoc-only turning his lens to the*Available only in Europe *This book is secondhand. A collection of portraits by Yoshihiko Ueda, one of Japan's leading advertising photographers, capturing 38 cultural figures including Japanese artists, novelists, and photographers over four years from 1999 to 2002 at a monthly pace. Ueda's photographs possess a consistently calm and assured gaze, whether his subjects are products, people, forests, or rivers. Even in product advertisements, there is