大正一二年東京大震災写真画帖
A 1923 Japanese photographic album published by Bunkōdō and written by Takahashi Matajirō, documenting the Great Kantō earthquake's destruction in Tokyo for a general readership. The four photographs show crowds moving through rubble-strewn streets, collapsed multi-storey brick buildings, and damaged houses with shattered walls; a designer might draw on their dense, chaotic compositions and the contrast between ruined masonry and open street.
