Akka Buraku

Hirokazu Ishida
Akka Buraku
Photographs: Hirokazu Ishida
Text: Hirokazu Ishida
Publisher: Shashin Hyoronsha
32 pages
Pictures: 31
Year: 1973
Comments: Stapled softcover, oblong size, 18 by 26cm, b&w photographs richly printed on mat paper. Some stains and colored with a small fold on cover otherwise in very good condition. Extremely rare Japanese photobook.
The second book of the photographer with the same publisher after Baramon to Janta.
In this new opus The photographer documented a north part of Japan called Akka. He photographed the habitants during 10 years, mostly farmers from 1963 to 1973. In this self-sufficient place the technology didn't reach it even during the economical boom in Japan.











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