Shima no Ama | Kusukazu Uraguchi | Atelier EXB 2024

Shima no Ama | Kusukazu Uraguchi | Atelier EXB 2024"For centuries, ama women divers have fed the Japanese imagination. These free divers collect abalone, shellfish and seaweed, the sale of which ensures their financial independence within the household. Kusukazu Uraguchi (1922 1988) has been photographing them in the Shima region, along the Pacific coast of Japan, for over thirty years since the mid 1950s. The fruit of extensive research among nearly 40,000 negatives almost all of them previously

despite his advancing years

Please refer to photos

including the famous and sought-after Jacques Bourboulon

I had come to think of women as being comparable to fireflies

Her brown curly hair is her trademark and make-up is a foreign word for Susann

"Newcoast" (1995) was shot on the Tokyo Bay coast after Onishi moved to Rinkai-cho

“BladeRunner-esque” had yet to enter the language

very small and light spots on the white part of the dustjacker

and not the relentless traveller he once was

Please note: what appear to be spots on the title label I have found the same on every copy of this volume and therefore I think they are printed

Mayumi Hosokura

Upper left corner has suffered a bump