映画館 (Eigakan / Movie Theater) — Hideki Yamada — Place M — 2020

Japan’s disappearing pink cinemas become the setting for a more hidden social world in Hideki Yamada’s 映画館. Rather than concentrating on the films themselves, Yamada photographs people who gather in these increasingly scarce adult theatres for purposes beyond moviegoing, extending his earlier work around hattenba and marginal spaces of encounter. Published as COVID-19 further restricted these communities, the book turns an already vanishing environment into a record of intimacy, cruising and social life at the edge of public visibility. 

Technical Sheet
Title: 映画館
Artist / Author: Hideki Yamada (山田秀樹)
Date: 24 August 2020
Medium / Materials: Hardcover
Dimensions: 22 × 29.7 cm
Images: 77
Design: Toru Komatsu (小松透)
Printing / Binding: Inunic Co., Ltd. (株式会社イニュニック)
Publisher: Place M
Condition: New