Price On Request **"FLASH UP"** **PRINTS FOR SALE**, for more images 他のイメージもございますので、お気軽にお問い合わせください please contact [amanda@zen-foto.jp](http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=mailto%3Aamanda%40zen-foto.jp&t=M2MxYzM0MDcxNDE4NTY4M2M3MDU4Yjk2MmVkNTM0OTU4M2M1MDg1MixWRUtHZ0lmZg%3D%3D&b=t%3AveuyjpOEXdnxA_bJyZXfzg&m=1)**Silver gelatin print, all signed by artist.** Available in the following three sizes as modern print:p:11×14inch　 p:16×20inch　　 p:20×24inch　Publication ["Flash Up"](http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shashasha.co%2Fjp%2Fbook%2Fflash-up%2F&t=Zjk2YzQzNWM0ODIxMmNmZWMzOGQ4OGFkNDA5YjY5MGMyMDRhZjk1ZixWRUtHZ0lmZg%3D%3D&b=t%3AveuyjpOEXdnxA_bJyZXfzg&m=1) (2013 New Edition) (Zen Foto Gallery, 2013)**SEIJI KURATA （1945―　）**Born in Tokyo in 1945, photographer Kurata Seiji graduated from the department of oil painting of Tokyo National University of the Arts. Influenced by the art of his time since his student days, he kept on carrying on his creative activity crossing various genres: on one hand he produced works of an avant-garde level while also dealing with the production of 8mm films. However, his first and genuine grappling with photography came a bit late in his life, when he was approaching 30. In 1974, simultaneously with the opening of Workshop School of Photography*1 by Eikoh Hosoe, Tomatsu Shomei, Nobuyoshi Araki and Moriyama Daido, as one of the first generation students, he took Moriyama's classes. After graduating the following year, he began his career as a freelance photographer.After assembling pictures for about one year, in 1976 his work "Kinsha - Ikebukuro nights" was published on Workshop School of Photography's magazine "Quarterly Workshop" (n°8). Exposing the habits and life of the people squirming through the amusement quarters, like gay cross-dressers or women working in brothels and their customers, to his intense strobe flash, this work discloses the desires of those who sink in the darkness of the city and has been highly assessed as cutting through a whole new territory of documentary photography. Even after that, continuously extending his range of subjects to yakuza, right-wing politicians and delinquents, he kept shooting non-stop the nights of Ikebukuro and in 1979 he held the solo exhibition "Street Photo Random Tokyo 1975-79" at Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo. The following year the photography...