hair

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Kishin Shinoyama's "hair". A photo book published in 1994 as part of Shinchosha's "PHOTO MUSEE" series, compiling color works photographed with women's pubic hair as the main subject. This item is the first edition published on October 15, 1994.

What appears on screen are mainly the body from the navel down and pubic hair. By almost eliminating elements that identify the person, such as the face and chest, it places "hair" itself, a part of the body, at the center of the photographs. The same subject is photographed repeatedly while changing the lighting, background, body orientation, and distance.

In the early 1990s, so-called "hair nude" became a major topic in Japan, and the situation surrounding bodily expression in photographic expression and publishing was also changing. This book is a collection of works that, in such times, took the title "hair" as is and exclusively photographed pubic hair, compiling it into one volume.

[Title] hair
[Publisher] Shinchosha
[Publication Date] October 15, 1994 (First Edition)
[Number of Pages] -
[Size] Approx. 150 * 200 * 8 mm / 260 g
[Format] Softcover
[Language] Japanese
[Title Reading] Hair
[Author/Editor, etc.] Kishin Shinoyama/Author, Yukiko Morita/Title Design, Shinchosha Design Studio/Design
[Printing/Binding] Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd./Printing, Kato Binding Co., Ltd./Binding
[ISBN] 4106024020
[Condition] Used [5] Fair (Dust jacket: minor tears and repairs)
[Accessories] Dust jacket
[Featured in] -
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Kishin Shinoyama (1940–2024)

Born in Tokyo in 1940. Photographer.

While attending Nihon University's Faculty of Art, Department of Photography, he joined the advertising production company Light Publicity and became independent in 1968. In 1966, he won the Newcomer Award of the Japan Association of Photography Critics. In 1972, he received the Minister of Education's Art Encouragement Newcomer Award for "Onnagata/Okusan", and in 1979, he won the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award for "135 Women Friends".

He continued to photograph in a wide range of fields such as advertising, magazines, portraits, nudes, and architecture, publishing numerous photo books. In the 1990s, he published "TOKYO NUDE", "water fruit", "Santa Fe", "Food", "Balthus", "Girl Revolution", etc., and began publishing "Kishin Shinoyama News" in 1994.

He is also known for his works dealing with the female body, and in the 1990s, he published many works amid the circumstances surrounding so-called "hair nude". He continued to photograph people, bodies, and spaces while closely linking them with the media and publishing of that era.