The Last Day of Summer | Jock Sturges | Aperture 1991 [HARDCOVER]

The Last Day of Summer | Jock Sturges | Aperture 1991 [HARDCOVER]4to, hardcover with dustjacket, second printing. VG conditions. The dustjacket is yellowed, has light dirt and has creases and very small tears along the edges. The border of the pages are yellowed. There is a pencil written price on the backcover interior. Please mind the photos of the interiors, except the first and last pages, comes from the softcover version of the book.

"Toshio Shibata’s “Landscape” is a series of compositional images of concrete retaining walls and erosion control dams in the mountains of Japan

the river would often overflow

Such places give rise to the unexpected

Yet the mother continues to take photos

After a night of drinking in Kajimachi

This is an important collaboration as Moriyama had a creative breackdown immediately after the publication of "Farewell Photography" and his works on Shashin Jidai marked his return to photography

Though some years had passed since the completion of this photo story

while a wounded soldier wanders the beach crying out his mother’s name

“Only I can deal with my own reality

comes without number

this photo book includes a few such shots

what I was thinking about at that time wasn't expressing intimacy with the other person