Leo Rubinfien

Leo Rubinfien is an American photographer. His books include A Map of the East, Wounded Cities, Shomei Tomatsu/Skin of the Nation, and Garry Winogrand.  (February 2021)

‘My Eyes Are Infamously Greedy’

Japan’s energetic culture of the photobook, from 1912 to today.

The Japanese Photobook, 1912–1990

by Manfred Heiting and Ryuichi Kaneko, with essays by Duncan Forbes, Satomi Fujimura, and others

Chizu (Map)

by Kikuji Kawada

by Issei Suda

Karasu (Ravens)

by Masahisa Fukase

Utatane (Daydream)

by Rinko Kawauchi

Halo

by Rinko Kawauchi

Half Awake and Half Asleep in the Water

by Asako Narahashi

Kuroyami (Black Darkness)

by Sakiko Nomura

The Restoration Will

by Mayumi Suzuki

Zaido

by Yukari Chikura

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February 11, 2021 issue

Letter

Edward Osowski

Safe Passage

May 27, 2021 issue

My Asian Road

When I was twenty-five, I returned to Tokyo with the definite aim of making photographs, and animated at once by adventurousness and nostalgia for those early days, I went beyond Japan too, well into China and Southeast Asia.

October 29, 2014

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