Publisher/Rat Hole Gallery

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The Joy of Portraits (Signed) is a photo collection by Japanese photographer Keizo Kitajima. 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 the self-run gallery "Image Shop CAMP" in Shinjuku 2-Chome, where he 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 the Kimura Ihei Award. He subsequently traveled to Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and other countries, gradually transforming his photographic style. He abandoned snapshot photography in the early 1990s and focused on portraits and solid landscapes that emphasized human dignity. This book is like a dictionary that compiles Kitajima's work up to that point, covering his work from the mid-1970s onwards in "Okinawa and Koza" to the early 1990s in "Tokyo," "New York," "Eastern Europe," and "Berlin, Seoul, and Beijing," as well as his subsequent "Portraits." It spans two volumes and a total of 874 pages. Limited to 1,500 copies. Signed by the photographer .