Google翻訳
"Nude Universe: Kitamura Ko's Photography Rules 2" is a collection of works by Japanese photographer Ko Kitamura (1930-). Kitamura, who began photography while a student at Tokyo University of the Arts, is an unconventional photographer who has continued to photograph female nudes for many years, keeping his distance from the mainstream and commercial world of photography. His activities were not aimed at exhibitions or magazine publications, but were an extremely private practice supported by personal passion and obsession, producing a vast body of work in a place separate from the main stage of Japanese photography history. This book is one of the "Photography Rules" series edited and introduced by Kyoichi Tsuzuki, who focused on Kitamura's archives. Tsuzuki has consistently shed light on unknown artists and cultures that have fallen outside of existing values, starting with "ROADSIDE JAPAN," and this interest is also strongly reflected in Kitamura's work. The nude photographs included in this book convey the weight of the act of taking pictures itself, which has continued for nearly half a century, rather than being refined as fine art photography. Although it exists on the fringes of the history of nude photography in Japan, this book, as a vast record born from individual desires and creative impulses, makes us reconsider the depth and richness of amateur photography culture.
