Before the End of Everything: Masuyama Tazuko and “Another Tokuyama Village”

(Translators’ Note: This is a translation of a Japanese-language article published in Kohara Masashi and Nobe Hiroko, eds., Masuyama Tazuko: subete shashin ni naru hi made [Masuyama Tazuko: Until Everything Becomes a Photograph](Shizuoka: Izu Photo Museum, 2014), a book accompanying the exhibition of the same title, held at the Izu Photo Museum in Shizuoka, Japan from October 6, 2013 through July 27, 2014. The article was originally published in “photographers’ gallery press”, no. 7 (Tokyo: photographers’ gallery, 2008), and then revised and expanded for the 2014 book. Although the names of the author and translator are in Western order, Japanese names that appear in the article and the bibliography are in Japanese order, with the family name first.)