Seventeen's Map

One of Joji Hashiguchi's 대표작. This is a photobook of portraits featuring 102 seventeen-year-olds he met while traveling throughout Japan in the late 1980s.

From Rebun Island, Hokkaido to Yonaguni Island, Okinawa, Joji Hashiguchi faced each individual, listening to their words as he took their photographs. Each photo is accompanied by an interview with the subject, documenting 17-year-olds in diverse circumstances, such as high school students considering higher education, young working professionals, and girls with families. By having the subjects and the photographer exchange gazes directly, the atmosphere of the era and the contours of each individual quietly emerge.

Since its publication in 1988, it has remained highly acclaimed as a representative work of Japanese portrait photography. This important work by Joji Hashiguchi simultaneously captures the lives of individuals and Japanese society in the 1980s through the turbulent age of seventeen.
Featured in Martin Parr's "The Photobook: A History Volume II."

[Title] Seventeen's Map
[Publisher] Bungeishunju
[Publication Date] April 5, 1991 (3rd printing)
[Page Count] Unpaginated
[Size] Approx. 300*305*10mm / 860g
[Format] Softcover
[Language] Japanese
[Title Reading] JUNANASAINOCHIZU
[Author/Editor, etc.] Joji Hashiguchi/Author, Shoichi Ono/Assistant, Kazuo Mogi/Editor, Yumiko Takata/Editor, Takako Totsuka/Editor, Jun Mimura/Art Director
[Printing] Tosho Printing/Printing
[ISBN] 4163422609
[Condition] Used Used [5] Good (Cover: spine faded, Book body: minor foxing on top and fore-edge, edges lightly tanned with age)
[Accessories]
[Featured Book] The Photobook: A History Volume II
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Joji Hashiguchi (born 1949)

Born in Kagoshima Prefecture. Photographer.

Began photographing while traveling throughout Japan in the 1970s. In 1981, he received the 18th Taiyo Award for "Shisen" (Gaze). Since then, he has continued to document people's lives and social conditions using a unique method that combines portraits and interviews.

His major works include "Seventeen's Map," "Father," "Couple," "Shoku 1991-1995" (Work 1991-1995), "Yume" (Dream), "Kodomotachi no Jikan" (Children's Time), "17-sai" (17 Years Old), and "Hitori no Kioku Umi no Mukou no Senso to, Ikinuita Hitotachi" (Memories of a Single Person: War Across the Sea and Those Who Survived).

His major awards include the Taiyo Award, the Photographic Society of Japan Annual Award, and the Higashikawa Award for Domestic Artists.

His major collections are held at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, and the Kawasaki City Museum, among others.