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Posted 03.01.10 | PERMALINK | ESSAY

Alan Thomas: Open Secrets: Photographs of Japan

National Art Center, Tokyo, 2009.

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Open Secrets: Photographs of Japan
On Places, photographs by Alan Thomas that explore the "peculiar geometries" of urban Japan — the small-scale improvisational spaces in between the big planned projects, and beyond the busy entertainment districts and the crowded department stores.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Alan Thomas is Editorial Director for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Chicago Press and a photographer specializing in urban landscape.
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