Photography Device #4: Landscape Photography

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

This issue features "Landscape Photography." The stimulating texts by distinguished commentators are still very readable even today, and the chronology is very practical. In addition to contributions by Koji Taki and Kojin Karatani, the opening photogravure features works and essays by Takuma Nakahira, published before the publication of "A New Gaze" (1983).

The complete set isHere.

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table of contents

◉Photo
The Origin of Photography 1981 Takuma Nakahira

Feature/Landscape Photography
Sociology of Landscape Photography by Koji Taki
Iconography of "Wind" by Toshiharu Ito
The Context of Landscape by Takashi Ueno
"Landscapes" in Paintings and Photography by Takao Aiba
Mirrors and Photographic Devices by Kojin Karatani
The Gaze of Suspension of Judgment or the Device of Hell by Toshihiro Asakura
Landscape View by Shinya Fujiwara
PART1 to PART4 Masato Hara
Postcards as Natural Scenery by Kenichi Matsumoto
Transformation of the city and aerial photography by Iwao Matsuyama
A Journey to the Landscape by Hiroshi Umino
The relationship between nature, painting and photography 1830-1910
1967-1972 The Landscape Controversy: An Overview

Series
Photography and Scientific Imagination 4 Yoichiro Murakami
The VIVO Era 4: Tatsuo Fukushima

Review
Photogenic Elections by Roland Barthes, translated by Yoichi Umemoto

Book Review
Photo is inserted by Inuhiko Shimoda

Photographic Equipment Column

Cover photo: Fox Talbot (c. 1840)

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Title: Shashin-Souchi #4
Author: Various
Editor: Hiroshi Oshima
Shashin-Souchi-sha, 1982
Softcover
220 x 149 mm
182 pages
Text in Japanese
First edition