Minyou Sanga Issei Suda

A collection of works by photographer Issei Suda. He sees photography as a way to record the everyday while at the same time revealing the extraordinary. He has been interested in festivals, which are an extension of the everyday but exude a different atmosphere. This book is a compilation of the serial "Minyo Sanga" (Folk Song Mountains and Rivers) that ran in the magazine Nippon Camera. This serial ran for two years from 1978 and covered "festivals" around Japan, which he visited with Masao Tanaka, a photo critic and the brother of Hiroshi Hamaya, the first Japanese person to win the Hasselblad International Photography Award. The series was not intended to be a commercial tourist photo series, but rather a series of photographs of people living in the extraordinary space of festivals and their daily lives, and it is a book that shines with the unique perspective of the artist, who drew a clear line between the "ordinary" and the "extraordinary.