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Having released the firstinstallmentof his Showa series Showa 88 in2011, Kazuyoshi Usui''s second publication Showa 92 once again takes viewers into the photographer''s own heightened world of the past and imagined future, bridging the gap between the two to form a photobook thatreconstitutesthe very meaning and binaries ofthe real and fake. Showa 92 brings together a body of work which introduces a world of impossibilities, where the present and future have been removed to create a world that brims with both cinematic and poetic sensibilities. Wintin, Usui presents a visual narrative half dipped within the turbulences and realities of which symbolized the Showa period of Japan''s past,simultaneouslybringingviewers forth into an imagined reality of Japan where good-bad taste reigns true, a world that is both stylish and original, envisioned and reflected through the photographic lens of KazuyoshiUsui.

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      Publisher Zen Foto Gallery
      Published 1 January 2015
      ISBN-13 9784905453376
      978-4905453376
      ISBN-10 4905453372
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      Book Synopsis
      Having released the firstinstallmentof his Showa series Showa 88 in2011, Kazuyoshi Usui''s second publication Showa 92 once again takes viewers into the photographer''s own heightened world of the past and imagined future, bridging the gap between the two to form a photobook thatreconstitutesthe very meaning and binaries ofthe real and fake. Showa 92 brings together a body of work which introduces a world of impossibilities, where the present and future have been removed to create a world that brims with both cinematic and poetic sensibilities. Wintin, Usui presents a visual narrative half dipped within the turbulences and realities of which symbolized the Showa period of Japan''s past,simultaneouslybringingviewers forth into an imagined reality of Japan where good-bad taste reigns true, a world that is both stylish and original, envisioned and reflected through the photographic lens of KazuyoshiUsui.

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