Photography Device #8: Advertising Photography

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

This issue features "advertising photography." The stimulating texts by distinguished commentators are still very interesting to read even today, and the timeline is very practical.

The complete set isHere.

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table of contents

◉Photo
Dog: Min Matsumoto

Special feature: Advertising photos
Advertising Photography by Shiroyasu Suzuki
The Birth of Advertising Photography Hiroshi Umino
Maternity and Utopia in the Images of Inuhiko Shihota
Sketches on the Phases of Advertising Photography by Ryuzo Uchida
Message of Absence Hiroshi Kashiwagi
=See Shiseido's advertising photos=
The Art of Gold Alchemy by Shinichi Kusamori
Advertising Photography and Advertising, Osamu Hayasaki, Katsumi Yuya, Masateru Aoba, Shinpei Asai, Haruo Toyama, Takahisa Kamijo, Takashi Kurukara, and Katsumi Asaba
Advertising/New Religion Masashi Miura

The Structure of Advertising Photography by Akira Unami
Japanese and American Advertising Expressions Yasuhiko Kobayashi
Topos of Advertising Yoshiaki Nishino
The Spiritual History of Desire: From Myth to Advertising Photography by Kazuo Nishii
Documents, Advertising and Communication History 1940-1969

Review
Notes on 19th Century Photography (2) by Koji Taki

Series
The Scientific Imagination of Photography〔8〕Yoichiro Murakami
20th Century Photography History 2: Toshiharu Ito
The VIVO Era 8 Tatsuo Fukushima

Book Review
Forbidden Encounter by Toshio Matsuura

Photographic Equipment Column

Cover photo: Silhouettes of Mr. and Mrs. Fames Grey and Eleanor, c 1840

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Title: Shashin-Souchi #8
Author: Various
Editor: Hiroshi Oshima
Shashin-Souchi-sha, 1983
Softcover
220 x 149 mm
206 pages
Text in Japanese
First edition