HAIKYO The Modern Ruins of Japan Death of Photography

HAIKYO The Modern Ruins of Japan Death of PhotographyHAIKYO: The Modern Ruins of Japan Shane Thoms Hardback 216 pages With mazes of expressways pushing scores of traffic through action filled, neon lit cities, there is perhaps no better platform than Japan to grasp the full motion and machinery of life. But sitting silently in the shadows waits another realm. Just as intoxicating, enchanting and engaging as its counterpart albeit not as animated or ablaze with flashing lights, hundreds of abandoned

private homes

Think of the editorial policy as operating a kind of BS detector and you’ll understand what is and isn’t likely to be included

the beauty and the essence of what makes the city what it was

billboards

Lawless believes that this is the beginning of the end of the greatest economic machine the world has ever seen…America

MADE IN BRITAIN A Photographic History of Britain at Work

sublime industrial collapses and contemplate the spectacular fallout of what really happens when a worldwide bubble economy pops

deflecting attention while steadily producing an epic body of iconic work

the Mods invented what we now call British youth culture

We used to make stuff on an epic scale

If that isn’t enough there are some words too

once called home