Watashi no gendai / What I'm Doing : Position and Direction

Eiko Yamazawa
Watashi no gendai / What I'm Doing : Position and Direction

Photographs: Eiko Yamazawa

Publisher: Yamazawa Eiko Shashinshu Kankokai

61 pages

Year: 1982

Price: 300 €

Comments: Hardcover with dust jacket, 30 x 26, 3 cm. In good condition other than a tear on the dust jacket and some scuffing at the extremities of the dust jacket (see pictures). Inside it's in good condition.

Eiko Yamazawa, one of the pioneers of female photography in Japan, studied photography after graduating from Joshibi University of Art and Design. Upon returning to Japan, she opened a photo studio in the Dojima Building in Osaka. After graduation, she primarily focused on commercial and portrait photography but retired from commercial work in 1960.

After retiring from commercial photography, Yamazawa began to focus on abstract still life photography, and his interest in this field intensified during the 1970s. This book features 57 of his works, created between 1974 and just before the book's publication.