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"A day in the life of Japan"
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Sayle, Murray
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Cohen, David
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Smolan, Rick
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etnografische fotografie
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fotoboeken (vorm)
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fotojournalistiek
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tradities
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straatfotografie
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Japan
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""At first, the very notion of A Day in the Life of Japan seemed arrogant and outrageous. One-hundred world-famous photographers would be assembled in Japan to do a book on Japanese life during one twenty-four-hour period. The idea was to send the photographers to the ordinary Japan--to the mountains, out on fishing boats,to bath houses, to ball games, to bars and beauty parlors. Arrogant, the critics said, because most of the cameramen are foreigners. Outrageous, they say, because Japan can't be captured in twenty-four hours. But surprisingly, the critics were wrong. The photographers were able to look beyond the clichés to a very human Japan--not a land of robots and silicon and stereos but a nation of fishermen and nature lovers and children studying the violin. They also found a people who have changed so rapidly that they seem to need outside reassurance that they are doing well, that Japan is noticed, accepted in the world. It was as if Japan, despite its explosion as a world-class power, is somehow pinching itself to make sure it's really true."-- Wyatt Andrews, on back of dust jacket."@en
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""In the late spring of 1985, a strange thing happened on the world's newsfronts. In London, Paris, New York, Beirut, Central America and the Middle East, 100 of the world's foremost photojournalists--the world weary, khaki-clad lensmen of the press--packed their cameras in canvas shoulder bags and boarded planes. They flew to Japan, a country which has intrigued the world for centuries, to see if they could capture the life of a nation on film during the course of one twenty-four-hour period. Japan has earned the world's admiration and envy as the 'economic miracle' of the 20th century. But the decades since World War II have been marked by enormous upheavals. Centuries of tradition have been buffeted by economic and cultural storms. A Day in the Life of Japan is a rare glimpse at the people behind the clichés, the modern world citizns behind the ancient rituals, the human faces behind the factories and robots. Photojournalist Rick Smolan and editor David Cohen called the photographers together and gave them unusual instructions: Don't try to make the definitive statement about Japan. Don't concentrate on the rich, the powerful or the famous. Avoid clichés. Instead do the hardest thing of all--make extraordinary pictures of ordinary events. In A Day in the Life of Japan, you will go on assignment with members of the most illustrious photography team ever assembled. Start the day in the cockpit of a bullet train speeding out of Tokyo with Fortune magazine photographer Paul Chesley. Join National Geographic's Rich Clarkson as he visits the home of the chairman of the giant Sony Corporation. Go to a small mountain village with Pullitzer Prize winner Eddie Adams. Look in on Japanese gangsters with Iranian photographer Abbas. Penetrate the solitude of a Buddhist monastery with Time magazine's Matthew Naythons."-- On front flap of dust jacket."@en
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"Captioned photographs depict Japanese life during one 24-hour period in 1985."@en
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"eng"
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A day in the life of Japan: photographed by 100 of the world's leading photojournalists on one day, June 7, 1985
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