Publisher/Nazraeli Press

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"Tsugaru | Shimokita (Signed)" is a collection of works by Japanese photographer Kazuo Kitai. Kitai's early work was based on "reportage", and his early representative works include "Resistance" (1965), a photo book 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. 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 Kitai's representative work of his second period, "To the Village", which won the first Kimura Ihei Photography Award. This was the start of his activities as an "artist". This book is a collection of images taken in Shimokita and Tsugaru, the northernmost areas of Honshu, which Kitai first visited in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when he began to shift his focus from "battle" to "the countryside." These are barren lands where ancient legends and beliefs remain strong. These are early works by "Kitai in the Countryside" from the 1970s, depicting the landscapes and cultures different from those of the city, and even the original scenery of the rural areas of Japan that were being left behind, the polar opposite of rapid economic growth. Limited to 350 copies. Numbered. Signed by the photographer .