1970's Nippon (Signed)

Kazuo Kitai
1970's Nippon (Signed)

Photographs: Kazuo Kitai

Publisher: Tosei-sha Gallery

228 pages

Year: 2001

Comments: Softcover under dust jacket, 24,5 x 18,5 cm, b&w photographs. In very good condition other than traces of use on the dust jacket and soiling. Signed by Kazuo Kitai.

"I had no place that I can call a hometown as I had repeated moving many times since my childhood. All the same I longed for my hometown and I projected my hometown many times on pictures appeared in a developing solution under a red light in a darkroom. However, while I was taking these photographs, populations in farming villages were being absorbed into big cities continuously as a labor force and the decrease in population in farming villages was advancing. 1970s were the age in which a village community and human relation centering the agriculture had been collapsed and Japan in old and good age had finished."

- Excerpt from the afterword by Kazuo Kaitai