- Hardcover: 88 pages
- Publisher: Arctic Paper; illustrated edition edition (10 Oct 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0953890104
- ISBN-13: 978-0953890101
- Product Dimensions: 33.8 x 22.2 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,886,178 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Bruce Gilden here explores the darker side of Japan. The volume presents 62 images covering three main areas: Yakuza (Japanese mafia), Bosozoko (biker gangs), and lastly, street life in all its brutal reality.
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By turns grotesque, alarming , revolting and amusing, these photos depict the underbelly of Japanese cities. But the photos transcend their locality. In a way, they show the bad side of globalisation. Though focusing on the Orient, they could have been taken in any big city in the Western world. You find people like this in any English city for example, the products of fifty years of progressive, left-wing ideas.
Choosing to document life in so-called 'fertile areas', award winning Magnum photographer Bruce Guilden infiltrated the dark and dangerous underworld of Japanese culture to produce this startling yet intriguing series of photographs. Gilden captures the lowlife; the impecunious, prostitutes and villainous Yakuza gang members proudly displaying their trademark amputated fingers. Guilden's perfectly executed noir-inspired photographs expilicilty reveal hidden tales of the Japanese 'underlife'.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Yakusa or your life
16 Mar 2001
This (Coffee table Style Photo) Book documents various Characters from the "Yakusa" - The Japanese Mafia-style gangster community in their habitat of the Streets of Japan. Bruce Gilden has captured the kind of lifestyle these people lead in his gritty, at times disturbing (and sometimes quite bizarre) book. The photos tell a story in a single frame, and leave you with a different view of a Japan that we normally see as Hi-Tech and Prosperous. My only criticsm of the book would be, having met Bruce (at the book launch) it would have been good to include a few comments about the pictures from him, as he has a VERY dry and critical sense of humour. His Pictures convey so much truth and visual style, I think a few words would have been the icing on a very Bittersweet cake.
A Beautifully bound, Well designed Photojournalistic Book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
a modern masterwork of new journalism
14 Jun 2006
this is a great book. gilden has gone into an unknown territory here, away from his overcomfortable new york and into the streets and underground clubs of japan. this is a perfect example of the kind of new photojournalism that is the best of what the once great magnum still has to offer. (see luc delahaye for other examples, although he left the agency a few years ago)
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