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I have never learnt the academic theory regarding photography as a record, even through experience, but was aware of the meaning and importance of documentation on a hunch. Whenever I came to something that I felt the need to record, I would travel across the country to do so at all costs. Before I knew it 10 years had past, and although with a narrow range of vision and subjects, I have records of incidents from the time, and as I compare these images I get a sense of a fragment of the transitions of the world over time. This series is merely a small record of what I have taken in that manner as a single cameraman of a small community

– Takashi Hamaguchi / Extract from Record and Instant

Contents

• Anger (All Nippon Airways Accident)
• Stone Throwing Incident at the marriage ceremony of the former Crown Prince of Japan
• Matsukawa Incident
• Returnees from Sakhalin
• A town of white powder
• Tsurumi Rail Accident
• Niigata Earthquake
• The worlds fastest train
• Tokyo Olympics
• Around the US military base
• People challenging the Seikan Tunnel
• Rikidozan and wrestling
• Yobidashi Kotetsu’s retirement
• ObaQ appears
• Baby Boom occurs
• National Foundation day
• Prime minister Yoshida Shigeru’s state funeral
• The commoners are thirsting
• Memorial Demonstrations for Hiroaki Yamazaki
• Koraasa77 sails across the Pacific Ocean
• Toden disappears from Ginza street
• Narita new international airport incident
• Zengakuren
• Shinjuku Demonstrations approved as crime
• Hokkaido Earthquake
• Hidakawa bus fall accident
• The scars of the nuclear bomb are deep
• Student activism turning into quagmire
• Hamaguchi Takashi / Article by Masao Tanaka
• Diary on Visit
• Intimacy
• Every second is precious
• A summer to a new summer
• A record of a year
• Just air, and inside it
• Capturing everyday life
• What is thisdefinite loneliness and, insanity