Publisher/蒼穹舎

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"Signed" is a collection of works by Kazuo Kitai, one of Japan's leading postwar photographers. Kitai's early work was based on "reportage," and his early representative works include "Resistance" (1965), a photobook that recorded the protests against the docking of nuclear submarines in Yokosuka and was published privately, and "Sarizuka" (1971), which recorded the protests against the construction of the New Tokyo International Airport (Narita). However, just as Higa Yasuo and Taira Koichi gradually distanced themselves from the "struggle" in Okinawa and turned their gaze to the "inside" of Okinawa, Kitai also distanced himself from the "battle" and traveled all over Japan. There, he focused on the activities of people in the countryside who were being left behind and forgotten behind the high economic growth, which resulted in his second representative work, "To the Village," and this marked the start of his career as an "artist." This book contains 32 selected images taken during Kitai's travels around Japan in the early 1970s, the period when he first became interested in his work as an artist, and includes a text by the photographer himself at the end of the book. Edited by Michitaka Ota and Akira Hasegawa. First edition published in 1990. Limited to 750 copies. Signed by the photographer .