写真は、歩かなければ自分の思いに出会えないのであり、それも朝から出かけて夕方日が沈むまで歩き廻るのである。大阪市内の一部を歩き、都会派で通していたので「アスファルトジャングル」を撮影に行くと言って出かけた。「街」をライフワークのようにしてよく歩いたものである。

For photo­gra­phy, the only way to meet your thoughts is by walking, and you have to set out in the morning and walk until the sun sets in the evening. For me, the site to explore was a part of the city of Osaka. I thought of myself as a city dweller, and the urban landscape was my primary subject. Frequently I went out to wander around in the “asphalt jungle.” Every time I covered a fairly long distance to capture the cityscape, which turned into my lifework.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yoshihiro Suzuki (1941–2023) begann um 1960 mit der Fotografie. Er zog vom Land in Yamaguchi in die Metropole Osaka und kaufte sich eine Spiegelreflexkamera. In seiner Freizeit streifte er durch die Stadt und fotogra­fierte die urbane Landschaft. Einige Jahrzehnte nach ihrer Entstehung wurden diese Fotografien von Suzukis Sohn und Schwiegertochter wieder­ent­deckt und in umfang­rei­cher Auswahl unter dem Titel East Beats, Osaka 1964–1970 im Verlag Spector Books, Leipzig, 2023 veröffentlicht.

Das Zitat von Yoshihiro Suzuki zu Beginn dieses Beitrags stammt aus seiner Monografie.

 

Yoshihiro Suzuki (1941–2023) began taking photo­graphs around 1960. He moved from the country­side in Yamaguchi to the metro­po­lis of Osaka and bought an SLR camera. In his free time, he wande­red around the city and photo­gra­phed the urban landscape. Several decades after they were taken, these photo­graphs were redis­co­vered by Suzuki’s son and daugh­ter-in-law and published in an exten­sive selec­tion under the title East Beats, Osaka 1964–1970 by Spector Books, Leipzig, in 2023.

The quota­tion from Yoshihiro Suzuki at the begin­ning of this article is taken from his monograph.