past.” Yamazawa's abstract photographs of found objects and her art supplies dominated the remainder of her career and were released in a series of exhibitions under the title What I am Doing. Her first What I am Doing show was presented at Nikon Salon in Shinjuku, and was shown later in various iterations with iteration numbers, such as What I Am Doing 2 at the Line House in Kobe (1982) and What I Am Doing 3 at Asahi Gallery in Tokyo (1986). Yamazawa's view of photography has often been theorized to be an extension of or equivalent to painting. Regarding the 1956 essay "Forty Years as a Woman Photographer" penned by Yamazawa, Tsukasa Ikegami, curator of Otani Memorial Art Museum, pointed out a discrepancy between Yamazawa's self-proclaimed 40 years working as a photography with the fact that Yamazawa's photography career began after she returned to Japan and exhibited her work in 1929, which would have made her career only 27 years by the time the essay was written. Ikegami suggested that this discrepancy was because Yamazawa potentially viewed photography and painting as artistic equivalents, which Ikegami further substantiated by Yamazawa's frequent mixing up of the words "photograph" and "painting" in the interview featured in the film High Heels and Ground Glass made by Barbara Kasten and Deborah Irmas. It was also known that Yamazawa destroyed negatives and created only one or two prints, which Kyoto University of the Art's Professor Noriko Fuku submitted was possibly Yamazawa's way “to create a unique artwork like a painting.” Final years At the age of 85, Yamazawa moved into a nursing home in Kobe, and later relocated to one in Wakayama Prefecture. She died in 1995. Awards Yamazawa has received multiple awards for her photography including the Osaka Prefecture Art Award (1955) for her book Quest; Photographic Society of Japan Distinguished Contributions Award (1977); Kobe City Cultural Prize (1980); Iue Culture Award (1986); Soroptimist Award (1986); and Japan Inter-Design Forum Award (1987). Selected solo exhibitions Yamazawa was one of the few photographers at the time who held exhibitions and sold prints of their own work, though the majority of her exhibitions were held after her move to abstraction. 1929: Osaka YMCA 1932: Portraits of Creative Minds, Osaka Asahi Hall 1949: Yasue Yamamoto Costume Photographs, Osaka Asahi Hall Parlor 1956: In New York, Osaka Sogo; Ginza Matsuzakawa Tokyo 1963: Abstraction and Still Lifes, Osaka Sogo;