Photographic Equipment #3: Photography and Society

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

This issue features "Photography and Society." The stimulating texts by leading commentators are still very interesting to read even today, and the chronology is very practical. Texts by Seiji Otsuji, Daido Moriyama, and others.

The complete set isHere.

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table of contents

◉Photo
Faces and more by Michio Washio

[Special Feature] Photography and Society
Another Phantom, Masashi Miura
Towards a Semiotics of Photography by Akira Unami
The Institutional Fascination of Advertising Photography by Inuhiko Shihota
On the meaning of "understanding" by Kiyoji Ootsuji
A common consciousness of beauty seen in "cover photos featuring beautiful women" by Akio Nakanishi
Photography of Exclusion by Shinichiro Kurimoto
On "Photography" and "Society" Toshihiro Asakura, Daido Moriyama, Shigekazu Nagano, Shinpei Asai, Kikujiro Fukushima, Fuminari Morihara, Ryoji Akiyama, Hiroji Kubota, and Mine Watanabe
The Birth of Photojournalism in Germany Gisère Freund
Rhetoric of Photography = Theory of the Body by Kazuo Nishii
The Hollow of Consciousness Hollowed Out by Newspapers by Shinichi Nakazawa
The Politics of Photography by Tetsuo Kogawa
Walking Chronology = Graph Magazine 1931 → 1980
Montage of Quotations: Photography and Society 1931 to 1980

Series
Photography and Scientific Imagination 3 Yoichiro Murakami
The VIVO Era③ Nobuo Fukushima

Review
A Collection of Photographic Illustrations by Toshiharu Ito

Book Review
Corporate Landscape: Masato Inagawa

Photographic Equipment Column

Cover photo: Daido Moriyama (Accident) + Text layout: Nobuhiro Yamaguchi

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Title: Shashin-Souchi #3
Author: Various
Editor: Hiroshi Oshima
Shashin-Souchi-sha, 1981
Softcover
220 x 149 mm
182 pages
Text in Japanese
First edition

Condition: Good: Some fading, stains, and scratches typical of aging, but in good condition.