Publisher/Rat Hole Gallery

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Japanese photographer Keizo Kitajima presents "The Joy of Portraits," a photo collection. He enrolled as a second-year student at the legendary TERAKAYAMA-style photography school "WORKSHOP," founded by Tomatsu Shomei and Moriyama Daido. He visited Okinawa with fellow students he met there. He later founded his own gallery, "Image Shop CAMP," in Shinjuku 2-Chome, and embarked on a unique endeavor: photographing and printing works night after night in Tokyo, then immediately exhibiting them in the gallery and publishing a booklet. He then traveled to New York, immersed in the city's turbulent, unsafe streets, capturing striking snapshots with flash. His photobook, "New York," won him the Kimura Ihei Award. He subsequently traveled to Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and other countries, gradually transforming his photographic style. From the early 1990s, he abandoned snapshot photography and focused on portraits and landscapes that emphasized human dignity. This book is like a dictionary that compiles Kitajima's work up to that point, covering his works from the mid-1970s onwards, including "Okinawa and Koza," to "Tokyo," "New York," "Eastern Europe," and "Berlin, Seoul, and Beijing" in the early 1990s, as well as his subsequent "Portraits." It is a massive work spanning 874 pages in two volumes. Limited to 1,500 copies.