Harlem Black Angels Unknown - 2010

First edition of facsimile reprint. illustrated in black-and-white and color, black endpapers, softcover with gray printed belly band, 110 pp, 9 × 10 inches, text in Japanese and English by Hajime Kijima and Ruiko Yoshida. ISBN: 978-4861138539.
A facsimile reprint of Yoshida's significant 1974 photobook of the same title.
Ruiko Yoshida, who worked as an announcer for NHK broadcasting in Japan, received a Fulbright scholarship to study broadcast journalism at … Columbia University in New York, where she [majored in] photojournalism. Yoshida, who briefly married a white American school colleague active in the Civil Rights movement, settled in Harlem, the New York City neighborhood just north of Columbia University. Over the next ten years, she recorded the streets of Harlem, her neighbors and her friends … In 1974, Yoshida published Harlem: Black Angels, a softcover photobook that focuses on the children of Harlem. During her time in New York, she befriended another Japanese woman married to a… Leer más