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Photographers of Japan Vol.15 "Kitai Kazuo - Capturing “a scene I once saw…”"
Kitai’s photographs began to change from the 1970s onwards. Following his serial publication of “Okinawa Wanderings” (1972) and “France Wanderings” (1973) in Asahi Camera, he began to serialize “To the Village” from January 1974. “To the Village” continued until December 1975 and was awarded the first Kimura Ihei Award in 1976. Including the follow up of “And Then to the Village” (January 1976 - June 1976), this series spanned 4 years and 41 issues of Asahi Camera Magazine and is one of Kitai’s representative works. The theme of “To the Village” was the landscape of rural Japan as it changed with the rapid modernization that came with the economic boom of the 60s and 70s. However, Kitai’s purpose was not to comment on agricultural issues or leave folkloric record - at most, he was a passerby, capturing the scenes from his travels with a certain distance. As a result, his works capture nostalgic memories of scenes many Japanese consider the Japan of the past. Kitai continued to develop as a photographer after his completion of “To the Village”. He presented further works like “The People of Sakaigawa” (1979), a collection of photos taken in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture; “Tale of Shinsekai” (1981), which captured the area around Osaka’s Tsutenkaku; and “Funabashi Story” (1989), which pointed the camera at the people of Funabashi, Chiba, where he moved to in 1989. In the 1990s he spent a long period in the modernizing city of Beijing and compiled his recordings into the photo collection “Beijing 1990s” (2004). In her essay “Regular life” for the catalog of the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum’s exhibition “Kitai Kazuo - A scene I once saw” (Nov. 2012 ~ Jan. 2013), the curator Fujimura Satomi wrote, “Kitai Kazuo is a photographer who documents regular life”. The gaze which Kitai cast on this “daily life” seems to be growing deeper and deeper from the 2000s onwards.
 Kitai Kazuo "Kuwatorimura, Niigata from 1970s Japan" 1981 Gelatin silver print 15.8×23.6cm BacknumberVol.16 "Ogawa Takayuki (1938 - 2008) - explorer of shape through photography"Vol.15 "Kitai Kazuo - Capturing a scene I once saw" Vol.14 "Kazama Kensuke" Vol.13 "Narahara Ikko - Double Vision" Vol.12 "Q Ei and Vol.11 "Fukuhara Shinzo 1883-1948 -- Japanese Landscape Photography" Vol.10 "The city observer’s gaze Akihiko HIRASHIMA (1946~)" Vol.9 "Hitoshi FUGO 1947- -- The unusual world of works which fuses thought and technique" "ETSURO ISHIHARA - THE EXTRAORDINARY GALLERIST WHO TURNED PHOTOGRAPHY TO ART" Vol.8 "Iwata NAKAYAMA (1895-1949)" Vol.7 "KISEI KOBAYASHI (1968-)" Vol.6 "Tamiko NISHIMURA (1948-)" Vol.5 "Shigeo GOCHO (1946-83)" Vol.4 "Shoji UEDA -Locality open to the world-" Vol.3 "Yu OGATA, ICHIRO OGATA ONO -Dyslexia's picture of the world-" Vol.2 "Eikoh Hosoe's theatrical imagination" Vol.1 "maroon" -- Whereabouts of new works by Hiroshi Osaka
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