Lovely raw works by Japanese photographer Kohei Yoshiyuki.
Photos are taken in Tokyo’s Shinjuku, Yoyogi, and Aoyama parks during the 1970′s with a 35mm camera, infrared film and flash, showing people who gathered there at night for secret meetings, as well as the many spectators lurking in the bushes who watched.
With their raw, snapshot-like quality, these images not only uncover the hidden sexual exploits of their subjects, both homosexual and also serve as a chronicle of a Japan we rarely see; as Martin Parr writes in The Photobook: A History, Volume II, The Park is “a brilliant piece of social documentation, capturing perfectly the loneliness, sadness, and desperation that so often accompany sexual or human relationships in a big, hard metropolis like Tokyo.”
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