Tracks of the City BENRIDO The place used to be

The place used to be a mecca for waka poetry composed in the Manyoshu

and he created photographs that are ambiguous as to whether they are photographs or paintings

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whisper-like narration

They look intently at objects as if they could reveal or say something

Tracks of the City BENRIDO The place used to beThis is a reprint of a photobook originally published in 1979 as Shin Yanagisawa's first collection, featuring works capturing Tokyo between 1965 and 1970, right in the midst of the period of rapid economic growth. It documents the "transitional time and space" of the city, shaken by the waves of "scrap and build," where old streets were demolished and new structures rose. Yanagisawa maintained the consistent stance that "photography needs no words,"