Shima no Ama | Kusukazu Uraguchi | Atelier EXB 2024 Yoshiyuki Okuyama For better or for worse

For better or for worse

VG conditions

There are a few stains on the first and last white pages

The slipcase has some scratches ans some clear stains

softcover with dustjacket

Shima no Ama | Kusukazu Uraguchi | Atelier EXB 2024 Yoshiyuki Okuyama For better or for worse"For centuries, ama women divers have fed the Japanese imagination. These free divers collect abalone, shellfish and seaweed, the sale of which ensures their financial independence within the household. Kusukazu Uraguchi (1922 1988) has been photographing them in the Shima region, along the Pacific coast of Japan, for over thirty years since the mid 1950s. The fruit of extensive research among nearly 40,000 negatives almost all of them previously