just a man in love, a much-talked-about work that sold out at book events at home and abroad, here appears in a new edition. Its subjects are ordinary couples, and Shiohara captures them in the act of sex in a way only photography allows. Focusing in particular on the man's side, he records the changing expressions of a person absorbed in one-to-one communication with the one before them: the gaze that desperately devours the body is directed at a loved one, and a pure story runs beneath. Evoking the human figure as it ought to be, the book reaches toward something that can be called poetic.