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It’s not just the Canon ad or the Pentax ad- this issue has got some good stuff:

1. A color series entitled Light in August, Nagasaki by Tomatsu Shomei.

2. A selection of photos from Suda Issei’s series Fūshi kaden (風姿花伝)

This was one of my favorite pictures in a set he had exhibited at Syabi last year:

Japanese camera/photo magazines almost always have the camera and film data posted at the bottom of the last page of the article:

3: A series by Kenji Ishiguro (a photographer I’m not familiar with) on Hiroshima:

4. And finally, a glorious picture of a young Kishin Shinoyama.
With (presumably) his real hair:

So I’m after that May 1975 issue of Camera Mainichi to find that Araki ad simply because it’s just rare enough to make it worth looking for, but still cheap enough to afford to find. It’s the little things in life, right?

Anyway- I ended up in Jimbocho tonight in and out of a bunch of little used bookshops and found a place with about 10 issues of said magazine from the years 1975 and 1976. It turns out that at this time Canon advertised their F-1 with a different Japanese Photographer each month.
I didn’t find Araki, but even better upon opening the December issue I found Hiromi Tsuchida and his twin brother looking as cool as possible (note: quite cool) a page after the Nikkor lens selection advertisement. I’m pretty sure it is him to the left.

This was at his opening party for his retrospective exhibition at the Tokyo Metro photo museum a few years ago:

こりゃ決まりだ。
This is it. Makes a bit more sense now.
Thanks for the suggestion Mr. Jono.

Coming soon to this blog: replies to comments from this week.

I’ve got an exhibition (one nine five) coming up in April. The promotional postcard ended up quite simpler from what I made last night.