Eikoh Hosoe: Kamaitachi

"[Kamaitachi is] a spellbinding collection of images, ranging in subject from comedy to tragedy, mystery to eroticism, movement to stillness. The mud, straw, grass and leaves provide a strong sense of the villagers' closeness to nature. There is, too, a powerful sense of drama and of tradition brought before the camera." -- Mark Bentley --Black + White Photography"...Japanese photography books are not 'just' a collection of images - they are to be seen as a whole, with each individual image being not that important. Looking through Kamaitachi provides a welcome opportunity to see this principle in action; and, of course, there is the added thrill of seeing the work by one of Japan's most important post-war photographers." -- Jörg Colberg --Conscientious blog