Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru)

A twenty-third untitled work by Hiyoshi Mamoru. His treatment of social scenes — the community gathered around a shared activity, whether shelter from rain, market commerce, riverside washing, or cormorant fishing — consistently emphasizes the choreography of group behavior rather than the psychology of individual figures. This focus on the collective rather than the individual is characteristic of a social documentary approach and gives his prints a quality of observed social reality that more aesthetically driven work sometimes lacks.