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by Jodi Cobb
Knopf


The geisha districts of Kyoto present a blank face to the world. Seamless rows of aged wooden facades, tiny two-story houses whose bamboo shades blind the windows, block any glimpse inside. The world of geisha does not give up it's secrets easily.It is a formidable barrier for a photographer to penetrate, but penetrate, Jodi Cobb does. Geisha contains remarkable images and text from the first photoghrapher allowed into the private world of the geisha. This is truly facinating.

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