(SOLD): SEUNG-WOO, Yang. Outlaw Life: Daruma-san fell.

(Japan): Self-published, no date (c.2004).  First edition.  Softcover.  29.5cm by 21cm.  The photographer’s second book, unrecorded and previously unknown.  Presumably issued in just a handful of copies to accompany Seung-woo’s exhibition “Daruma-san fell” Ginza Nikon Salon, 2006.  The volume is a compelling documentation of the inhabitants of the Kotobukicho district of Yokohama, the dark underbelly of Japan: The poor, the drunk, and the destitute. The work offers a raw, humanistic, and often unsettling depiction of life on society’s edges.  The work is high-contrast, emotionally direct, and composed with a documentary sensibility, laying the groundwork for his ungoing documentation marginalized individuals, nightlife, crime, and displacement.  This is a very good copy in photoillustrated wrappers.  Rare, with no google reference.