Seventeen's Map

One of Joji Hashiguchi's representative works. A portrait photo book featuring 102 17-year-olds he met while traveling throughout Japan in the late 1980s.

From Rebun Island in Hokkaido to Yonaguni Island in Okinawa, Joji Hashiguchi faced each individual, listening to their words as he photographed them. Each photo is accompanied by an interview with the subject, documenting 17-year-olds from diverse backgrounds, such as high school students considering higher education, young working individuals, and girls with families. Through the direct exchange of gazes between the subject and the photographer, the atmosphere of the era and the contours of each individual quietly emerge.

Since its publication in 1988, this book has been highly acclaimed as a representative work of Japanese portrait photography. It is a significant work by Joji Hashiguchi, capturing individual lives and Japanese society in the 1980s through the turbulent age of 17.
Listed in Martin Parr's "The Photobook: A History Volume II".

[Title] Seventeen's Map
[Publisher] Bungeishunju
[Publication Date] April 5, 1991 (3rd printing)
[Number of Pages] Unpaginated
[Size] Approx. 300*305*10mm / 860g
[Format] Softcover
[Language] Japanese
[Title Reading] JUNANASAI NO CHIZU
[Author/Editor, etc.] Joji Hashiguchi/Author, Shoichi Ono/Assistant, Kazuo Mogi/Editor, Yumiko Takata/Editor, Takako Totsuka/Editor, Jun Mimura/Art Director
[Printing] Tosho Printing/Printer
[ISBN] 4163422609
[Condition] Used Used [5] Average (Cover: sunned spine, Body: light foxing on top and fore-edges, slight age toning on all three edges)
[Accessories]
[Featured in] The Photobook: A History Volume II
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Joji Hashiguchi (born 1949)

Born in Kagoshima Prefecture. Photographer.

Began photographing while traveling throughout Japan in the 1970s. In 1981, he received the 18th Taiyo Award for "Shisen" (Gaze). Since then, he has continued to document people's lives and society using his unique method of combining portraits and interviews.

Representative works include "Seventeen's Map", "Father", "Couple", "Shoku 1991-1995" (Work 1991-1995), "Yume" (Dream), "Kodomotachi no Jikan" (Children's Time), "17-sai" (17 Years Old), and "Hitori no Kioku Umi no Mukou no Sensou to, Ikinuita Hitotachi" (Memories of a Single Person: War Across the Sea and Those Who Survived).

Major awards include the Taiyo Award, the Photographic Society of Japan Annual Award, and the Higashikawa Award Domestic Artist Prize.

Major collections include the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, and the Kawasaki City Museum.

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