ISHIGAME, Yasuo

Soshite Kodomotachi Wa Inai / And There Were No Children

Tokyo: Yayoi Shobo, 1968. First Edition. Quarto. Text by Toyoichiro Miyoshi and Gosuke Uchimura. Ishigame's other books focus exclusively on images of children. This work continues that theme, but instead of photographs of children themselves, Ishigame here shoots scenes of where children once were or should be, like an empty playground, a messy room, a deserted snowman, the end of a carnival. What results is a chilling book steeped in loss, where the lack of something is itself the subject. One copy on OCLC. Fine in a fine jacket, publisher's slipcase (covered in a glassine that may or may not be original).