With contributions from 19 photographers across 29 articles, the book offers a spectrum of perspectives ranging from scholarly to disarmingly intimate. SETTING SUN - Goliga Books

in 2005. It is the first English-language collection of essential texts written by Japan's most influential photographers from the postwar era to the early 2000s. DAP / Distributed Art Publishers Core Concept & Structure The book, edited by Ivan Vartanian Akihiro Hatanaka Yutaka Kanbayashi

Unlike the aggressive grain of Moriyama, Kawauchi uses prismatic flares and soft focus. The sun does not "set" in her work; it melts. She writes a haiku with the lens: a child’s hand reaching for the last beam, a puddle reflecting a fractured orange sphere, a glass of water catching the 5 PM light.