Author: Fuyuki Kennosuke
Title: [Tozu to Sakuga no Jissai].
Description: Tokyo, Genkosha 1939 (Showa 14). 20x16cm publisher's cloth and illustrated card case; b/w photo illustrations throughout. A nice copy. ¶ First edition of this practical guide to composition of the final cropped photographic image with one of the most baffling and maybe sinister cover pictures of all time. Why is that woman in the sensational shoes lying on her back in that field. And how did she get there with those shoes still clean? Why is that woman in the background on her belly and what is she looking at? What happened? Surely nothing good.Onchi Koshiro designed this book. He designed several of Genkosha's photography books including, I presume, his own. Note this book opens right to left.Worldcat finds a later book on composition by Fuyuki but not this.

Keywords: graphic art design photography c20th Japan modernism