Schoolgirl Complex 3: Girls’ School — Yuki Aoyama — East Press — 2013

The third volume of Yuki Aoyama’s Schoolgirl Complex series takes the girls’ school as its setting. Its colour photographs concentrate on uniforms, gestures and fragments of everyday school life, using close framing to interrupt the familiar structure of the portrait. Clothing and repeated visual details become recurring motifs across the sequence, while the relationship between individuals and a shared environment provides the book’s organising theme. Published by East Press in 2013, this compact volume continues Aoyama’s interest in how Japanese social roles are made visible through dress and body language. The Japanese subtitle, Joshikō, identifies the setting of this particular instalment, distinguishing it from the other books in the series.

Technical Sheet
Photographer: Yuki Aoyama (青山裕企)
Publisher: East Press, Japan
Published: 4 April 2013
Series: Schoolgirl Complex, volume 3
Japanese title: スクールガール・コンプレックス（女子校）
Pages: 156
Format: Modified A5, approximately 144 × 184 mm
Binding: Softcover
Illustrations: Colour photographs
Language: Japanese
ISBN: 9784781609744