Baramon to Janta : Indo / Brahman and the People : India

Hirokazu Ishida
Baramon to Janta : Indo / Brahman and the People : India

Photographs: Ishida Hirokazu

Publisher: Shashin Hyoronsha

Year: 1971

Comments: Softcover, 255 x 225 mm. First edition, 1971. Black & white photographs. Gravure printing. Text in japanese. Yellowed but binding is fine. Straight copy. Rare.

Ishida Hirokazu was born in 1943 in Beijing. In 1964 he graduated from the Tokyo Photography College, followed by an apprenticeship with Nagano Shigeichi. The present is his first book publication : Ishida visited India several times between 1967 and 1970 and the present is a strong, sombre, and painful record of life and death in India. Much of the book focuses on the abject poverty. The style of the images is reminiscent of Tomatsu's work in Afghanistan (Saramu Areikomu, Shaken 1968)