Masaji Oku - Visual How to Just Love Chance - 1980

Visual How to Just Love Chance

Masaji Oku
Seven/1980/Japanese/210*258*10

This is Visual How to Just Love Chance, a book from the Seven Mook / Seven Mook series of mook books published by Seibunsha in 1980. The Seven Mook series was a collection of stories with various thematic settings based on the motif of sex and eros, but the most famous work is Document: Park by Kohei Yoshiyuki in issue 4. It consists of peepshots of men, women and men-men making love in a park at night, which were appreciated by prominent American photography galleries and exhibitions were held in the 2000s, and a reprint edition was published in the US in 2019. Today, it is regarded as a form of art photography. This book uses text and photographic illustrations to depict a series of first-time young men and women in their 20s who are led to love. The photographs were taken by photographer Shoji Oku, husband of Yukari Uehara, a child actress and photographer who worked under the name Oku Shun.