Dear Old Days vol.2 | Ryoji Akiyama | Seisodo 2020 [REPRINT]

Dear Old Days vol.2 | Ryoji Akiyama | Seisodo 2020 [REPRINT]"In the course of publishing "Dear Old Days" reprint (2019), Seisodo found 8,000 photographs taken by Ryoji Akiyama in the early 1980's China, which have never been shown or published before. "Dear Old Days II" features 122 images from this newly discovered time capsule, with a different twist from the original edition. "Dear Old Days II", approaches the children's life in a more extensive way than the original, focusing on both physical and spiritual

Yasushi Handa is one of Japan's most accomplished photographers

book and booklet are in near fine conditions

Each shot is presented in a graphical composition that is unmistakably by Ryoji Akiyama

" - from the afterword by Shun Takaoka

In addition the book is slightly warped along the short side

except for my flatmate

The book has stains on the first and the last pag

has published a series of notable works

Noguchi crafts images that are both a reflection of reality and a window into the soul of a nation

“memories offuture

the truth of fictitious worlds)

they lose their worldliness and become unknown objects projected into darkness