"The Town Where You Live (Reprint Edition)" by Yoshiyuki Okuyama (Seigensha)

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Publisher: Seigensha (June 28, 2024)
Release date: June 28, 2024
Language: Japanese
Paperback (softcover): 256 pages
ISBN-10: 4861529581
ISBN-13: 978-4861529580
Dimensions: 14.5 x 14.5 x 2 cm

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release date 2024年6月28日

Part numberMbk9784861529580

Specification The "old days" of today's hottest actresses,
A record of the changing city of Tokyo

Since his debut in 2010, photographer and film director Yoshiyuki Okuyama has been actively releasing his work in numerous photo books and exhibitions, while also releasing a succession of impressive client work. His photo book "The City You Live In," a compilation of the serialization he ran in the magazine "EYESCREAM" over the course of about three years, attracted a great deal of attention not only for its star-studded cast, but also for its innovative approach of shooting only with a Polaroid camera, which brought out a new side of his subjects.

Seven years have passed since its publication and it has been out of print, but now the publisher has decided to re-release it in the form of a reprint.

He faces his subjects face-to-face, carefully communicating with them to build a relationship, and then each photograph, taken as if in a photo session, captures their lively expressions that can't be seen anywhere else.
This work can be described as a superb collaboration born from the combination of the subject's appeal with Okuyama's artistic talent, and it is an important series for Okuyama as it helped him deepen his own expression.

Another main feature of this book is the scenery of Tokyo.
Okuyama's photographs of the city of Tokyo are not only valuable as records of pre-Olympic Tokyo, but also, with his unique perspective and graphical composition, they have been burned onto Polaroid film as one-of-a-kind images.

In producing the reprint, we aimed to create a finished product that would give a sense of update in some areas by keeping the page layout of the original while completely rethinking the printing process and changing the base colour of the cover.

This book allows you to rediscover the city of Tokyo and the "old days" of 35 actresses.

List of performers (in order of appearance/titles omitted)
Nana Komatsu/Fumi Nikaido/Sayu Kubota/Kasumi Arimura/Riko Narumi/Yao Ai-ning/Mugi Kadowaki
Reina Kurosaki/Hirose Suzu/Matsui Airi/Yamamoto Maika/Seino Nana/Araki Yuko/Kaho/Kimura Fumino
Honda Tsubasa/Iitoyo Marie/Mizutani Kaho/Sugisaki Hana/Nakamura Yurika/Taira Yuna/Hayami Akari/Okamoto Natsumi
Ai Hashimoto/Mikako Tabe/Riho Yoshioka/Mitsuki Takahata/Aoi Morikawa/Ayami Nakajo/Shiori Kutsuna/Fuka Koshiba
Haruna Kawaguchi/Momoko Tanabe/Ren Komai/Yui Sakuma

Yoshiyuki Okuyama
Photographer and film director

Born in Tokyo in 1991. In 2011, she won the 34th New Cosmos of Photography Excellence Award for "Girl". In 2016, she won the 47th Kodansha Publishing Culture Award Photography Award for "BACON ICE CREAM". Her major solo exhibitions include "windows" (amanaTIGP, 2023) and "As the Call, So the Echo" (Gallery916, 2017). Her major photo books include "windows", "flowers", "As the Call, So the Echo" (AKAAKA Art Publishing), "BEST BEFORE" and "POCARI SWEAT" (Seigensha Publishing).

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