Photographic Device #5: History of War Photography

This is the fifth issue of the photography magazine "Shashin Soudousi," published between 1980 and 1986 by photographer and photography critic Oshima Hiroshi.

This issue features a special feature on "The History of War Photography." The stimulating texts by distinguished commentators are still very interesting to read even today, and the chronology is very practical. The first photogravure features Seiichi Furuya's first work, "AMS."

The complete set isHere.

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table of contents

◉Photo
AMS Seiichi Furuya

Special feature: "Photographic History of War"
What is cruelty photography?
The meaning of the latent desire for war photography by Koji Taki
LIFE War Photos by Akio Nakanishi
Fear of Death = FRONT Hiroshi Kashiwagi
Steichen/Naval Air Corps Photography Team, Naoki Yanagimoto
Why are there no photographs of the Boshin War? Akira Suzuki
War Photography by Satoshi Hidaka
Documents and War Photos 1843-1970
The Misery of Photography (An Essay) by Masami Miura

"Photographing War" by Shinichiro Kurimoto
Graphics of the Land Where Living Gods Live - Shinichi Kusamori
Leaping to national consciousness by Shiroyasu Suzuki
Taking War Photos Now: Fumihiro Ishikawa, Takashi Ogawa, Ryosuke Kagiwada, Yoshio Sakai, Tadayuki Kusuyama, Atsuki Sumita, Tsuneho Asada, and Tadahiro Ogawa

Review
A History of War Photography by George Levinsky, translated by Satoshi Hidaka

Series
Scientific Imagination of Photography 5 Yoichiro Murakami
The VIVO Era ⑤ Nobuo Fukushima

Book Review
From "Theatre" to "Mental Hospital" by Kotaro Izawa

Photographic Equipment Column

Cover photo by Brady, City Point, Richmond, Virginia

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Title: Shashin-Souchi #5
Author: Various
Editor: Hiroshi Oshima
Shashin-Souchi-sha, 1982
Softcover
220 x 149 mm
190 pages
Text in Japanese
First edition