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Illustrated Book of Imaginary Tomorrows

Published in collaboration with photographer Eizaburo Hara, this visual book features illustrations and collages made from advertisements and newspapers by Tanaami. It also contains illustrations by Koichi Tanikawa and Ushio Shinohara, photographs by Genpei Akasegawa, and Yoshihiro Kato’s Banpaku Hakai Katsudo Daiichi Sengen [First Declaration of Expo ’70 Destruction]. The book brings together images inundating society through magazines, newspapers, television, and advertising in an adventurous free-form layout. The overall art direction, which juxtaposes individual and collaborative works amid a plethora of information, reflects the approach Tanaami took in his concurrent commercial magazine work. Through these magazine-inspired techniques, Tanaami sought to visually embody the advent of the information age.