What's this? Book review of 100 Years of Tokyo photo book.

Impressions: From Sept. 30 to Oct. 24, 1999, the 5th International Photo Festival Herten was held in the Ruhr District of Germany. Held every two years since 1991, the festival's theme centers on a certain country each time, and this year it was Japan. There were high-quality exhibitions, workshops, seminars, presentations and events dealing with every aspect of photography. It was held in conjunction with the first ever Month of Photography in the Ruhr District with numerous museums and institutions from the region participating. Works by over 50 Japanese photographers such as Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Issei Suda and Kikuji Kawada, Daido Moriyama, Toshio Shibata, Shoji Ueda, Eiji Ina, Ryuji Miyamoto, Hiroshi Miyamoto, Norio Kobayashi, George Hashiguchi, Nobuyoshi Araki, and Hiromi Tsuchida were displayed. The exhibitions were held with the cooperation of the following galleries in Japan: JCII Photo Salon, Photo Gallery International, Zeit Photo Salon, and the Kawasaki City Museum.

This exhibition catalog shows the photos exhibited in Germany by JCII Photo Salon in Tokyo. The photographs of Tokyo were taken in the past 100 years by 40 prominent Japanese photographers such as Shotaro Akiyama, Tadahiko Hayashi, Ihee Kimura, Kineo Kuwabara, Shigeichi Nagano, Rikko Nakamura, Shoji Otake, Shigeru Tamura, Takeyoshi Tanuma, and Haruo Tomiyama. Just about all facets of life in Tokyo as well as portraits of famous people are included. Many of the photographs are well-known in Japan.

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