Publisher/Rat Hole Gallery

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"The Joy of Portraits", a photo book by Japanese photographer Keizo Kitajima. Entered the legendary Terakoya-style photography school "WORKSHOP" by Shomei Tomatsu and Daido Moriyama as a second-year student. Under the title of "Photo Express", we will work on a unique attempt to produce a booklet by immediately presenting a copy-printed work at night in Tokyo at the gallery. After that, he moved to New York, jumped into the turbulent and insecure city at that time, took a powerful snapshot with a flash, and won the Kimura Ihei Award for "New York" published as a photo book. After that, while visiting countries such as Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, he gradually changed his photography style, stopped snapping after the early 90's, and devoted himself to portraits and solid landscape photography that emphasized human dignity. I will. This book is like a dictionary that summarizes the works of Kitajima up to that point, and 90 from "Okinawa Koza" to "Tokyo" "New York" "Eastern Europe" "Berlin Seoul Beijing" since the mid-1970s. A large book with a total of 874 pages in two volumes, including works up to the beginning of the 1980s and subsequent "portraits". Limited to 1500 copies.