KOJI MOROOKA
REMEMBRANCE OF TOKYO
Published by Kodansha Ltd, Tokyo , 1972
Book size 11-3/8 x 8-5/8 inches (30 x 22 cm)
Pages 16 pp (including 2 two-page gatefolds), profusely illustrated with black-and-white plates.
Harcover with a slipcase
Language Japanese
First edition, first printing
Koji Morooka ( 1914-1991) is an apotherapist of the post-war. He mostly took pictures of Tokyo, especially Ginza. In 1936, he entered at ARS & Co., Ltd and became the editor of Camera Club magazine and later the editor of Shashin Bunka magazine in 1941. He won the Award of the Year, Photographic Society of Japan in 1973.
The book "Remembrance of Tokyo" presents Tokyo and its residents in between 1935 and 1972. Included here are images documenting ordinary citizens, shops and homes, urban landmarks, Imperial processions, panoramas of World War II ruins, war refugees living in underground shelters, urban renewal, the Olympic games and the new skyscrapers and superhighways that reoriented the city's social and physical landscape.
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Koji Morooka (1914-1991) was a post-war photographer. He mainly took pictures of Tokyo, especially Ginza. In 1936, he joined ARS & Co., Ltd. and became editor of Camera Club magazine, then editor of Shashin Bunka magazine in 1941. He won the Photographic Society of Japan's Year of the Year Award in 1973.
The book "Remembrance of Tokyo" presents Tokyo and its inhabitants between 1935 and 1972. Included here are images documenting ordinary citizens, shops and homes, urban monuments, imperial processions, panoramas of World War II ruins, war refugees living in underground shelters, urban renewal, the Olympic Games, and the new skyscrapers and highways that reoriented the city's social and physical landscape.