First edition. Numerous photographic plates. Japanese text. Folio. Original flexible boards, a fine copy. Stamped title "Presentation by the Author". 127pp. Together with a separately printed sheet of Japanese text. Tokyo, Horino Yoko Kinen Shinyokai Jimukyoku [Privately Printed], 1993.
Horino Masao (1907-2000) was possibly the most important proponent of 'shinko shashin' , the modernist photography movement in Japan. Influenced by European photographers like Moholy-Nagy and the Bauhaus group, Horino became famous for exploring the functional aesthetic of machines and architecture and made his reputation with his famous book 'Kamara Eye X Steel Composition' (1932). However, in the late 30s he began to embrace photo-journalism and became a freelance photographer. During the war he moved to Shanghai where he was working for an Army Propaganda unit. After his return to Japan he retired from photography and founded Minicam, a business that produced strobe lights and flash equipment. The present book contains an extraordinary series of photo-essays showing the process colonialization in Manchuria, daily life in schools, farms, hospitals, and shops. It also shows White Russian settlements as well as native Mongol life in the yurts. The Man-Mo Development Agency in affect carried out a programm of organised immigration to Manchuria. The book was privately published by Horino in memory of his wife Yoko and was not for sale. Only three copies in OCLC.
