By Kazuo Kitai
Published by Tosei-sha Gallery, 2004 – Gift from the publisher – Signed –
Location: Studio Sakse – Chiang Mai, Thailand
Kazuo Kitai was born in China in 1944, and since 1965 has published over 15 books of his work. In the 1990s he returned to the country where he was born, and this photobook is the result.
Landscape format (23.5cm x 31cm). 129 numbered and dated b&w photographs, taken in the 1990s of mainly urban scenes in China. Captions in Japanese, with a moving afterword in English by Kitai, on his birth in Japanese occupied Manchuria in December 1944 and his parents’ subsequent return to Japan in 1945. Signed by Kitai to title page. His renown outside Japan has grown in recent years, and critics see him as a pioneering influence on Japanese photography of the 60s, including the Provoke movement.
