Hotaru, Firefly | Yoshio Mizuguchi | Sokyusha 2019 [SIGNED] Leslie Turtle " - from the text

" -  from the text by Robert Slifkin

" Masao Yamamoto continues to photograph various aspects of nature

it remains a significant work

and two years later

There are a few small stains on the rice paper cover and on the last page

Hotaru, Firefly | Yoshio Mizuguchi | Sokyusha 2019 [SIGNED] Leslie Turtle " - from the textYoshio Mizoguchis portraits in this book girls and women of all ages in Japan: girls playing on the beach, older women in kimonos during a shopping trip, a woman provocatively raising her leg, another showing only her face, her body hidden behind a tree. All photos has been taken between the early 1990s and the early 2000s. At some point in my life, I had come to think of women as being comparable to fireflies. When the sweet nectar of my youth was