Softcover with (reversible) dust-jacket (first edition). Size: 16,5 x 24 cm, 128 pages. — Girl's Blue is Hiromix's first book published in 1996 by rockin' on. "The lifestyle documented in Girls Blue is determindely upbeat, focusing on the pop-consumerism of the young urbanite of relative affluence - a lifestyle dominated by clothes, shopping malls, fast-food outlets, and young men, to which Hiromix, like her subjects, clearly subscribes. ... But Hiromix, whose photographic voice is an unusually empathetic one, is unrepentant. Her comment on the book's jacket shows all the arrogance of youth: 'Photography is the place where I can express all ... I feel and think in my everyday life. It would not be understood by grown-ups or kids – only we can see what it is." Garry Badger in 'The Photobook': A History volume I, Hiromix). Hiromi Toshikawa, or better known as Hiromix was born in 1976 in Suginami City. She won the 11th New Cosmos of Photography (写真新世紀, Shashin Shin-seiki) award in March 1995 and was nominated by Nobuyoshi Araki, for a series of photographs called Seventeen Girl Days. Hiromi also had a cameo appearance in Sofia Cappola's 2003 film 'Lost in Translation'. Condition Very Good (a couple of pages have detached but are inside), protective plastic cover has been applied and can be removed.