Akihiko Okamura 岡村昭彦　The Memories of Others While there's a slight bump on the corner from being carried, I opened a new copy the other day and read it once. I think the inside is clean. The high contrast and saturation of the photos capture everyday life while somehow giving a sense of the extraordinary. The use of shadows is wonderful and I learned a lot. I am selling my photobook collection due to moving. I have other photobooks for sale, so please take a look. Akihiko Okamura became a famous war photographer in the early days of the Vietnam War, and later documented wars in Biafra and the Middle East. In 1969, he moved from Southeast Asia to Dublin. From there, he frequently visited Derry, Northern Ireland, and documented the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland. This book is the first collection of Okamura's work in Ireland, most of which has never been published before. Okamura's work, presented in full-page photo illustrations without text, is enveloped in soft, pale colors, which contrasts with the violence of the situations they depict. Filled with emotions of fear, terror, hope, and resignation, these photographs highlight Okamura's humanity and curiosity, his interest in everyday existence, and the absurdity, unnaturalness, and confusion of life during wartime. Stimulating essays by renowned photography historians and experts place this remarkable photobook in the context of Okamura's body of work and position these photographs within the history of both the photographic medium and the history of photography. These poetic and impressive photographs of Northern Ireland, published for the first time as a photobook, reveal a rarely examined aspect of the work of a leading war photographer of the 20th century. (publisher's description) 160p 28x20cm 75photo Hardcover 2024 English It was sold for 10,000 yen at a certain photobook specialty store and was sold out.