{"title":"Keizo Kitajima (北島敬三)","description":"\u003ch1\u003eKeizo Kitajima (北島敬三)\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eWorking between Tokyo, New York and the collapsing Soviet Union, Keizo Kitajima transformed street photography into a form of direct encounter. Emerging from Daido Moriyama’s circle, he developed an aggressive visual language built on proximity, movement and chance. His photographs often place anonymous passers-by face-to-face with the camera, collapsing the distance between observer and subject. While his early work adopted the grainy intensity associated with \u003cem data-start=\"835\" data-end=\"844\"\u003eProvoke\u003c\/em\u003e, later series such as \u003cem data-start=\"867\" data-end=\"877\"\u003eNew York\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-start=\"882\" data-end=\"893\"\u003eUSSR 1991\u003c\/em\u003e introduced saturated colour and a heightened attention to social transformation. Whether photographing nightlife in Tokyo, the streets of Manhattan or the final months of the Soviet Union, Kitajima treats photography as a way of entering the world rather than documenting it.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"modoru-okinawa-keizo-kitajima-first-edition-2015","title":"Modoru Okinawa — Keizo Kitajima (First edition, 2015)","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"122\" data-end=\"593\"\u003eBetween 1975 and the early 1980s, Keizo Kitajima turned his lens on Koza City, Okinawa — a site charged with aftershocks from the Vietnam War and the overwhelming presence of the U.S. military. \u003cem data-start=\"316\" data-end=\"332\"\u003eModoru Okinawa\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 2015 in a limited edition of 1000 copies, gathers this vital and volatile body of work. The book is a deep dive into a momentary cultural rupture, where Japanese and African-American subcultures collided in the chaotic, euphoric aftermath of war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"595\" data-end=\"1092\"\u003eShot in coarse, high-flash duotones and tritones, Kitajima’s images explode with gesture and shadow: nightlife, bodies, encounters, collapsed boundaries. Koza becomes a stage for a raucous performance of occupation, influence, identity and desire. There's no nostalgia here — only a raw, unfiltered clarity. Kitajima’s eye is not sentimental but surgical, committed to photography as an act of estrangement. His visual language pushes past appearance and into something more unstable, more urgent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1094\" data-end=\"1495\"\u003ePrinted on matte Gardapat with a black cloth spine, this volume is a tactile object as much as a photographic one — designed with the same stark intensity as its images. \u003cem data-start=\"1264\" data-end=\"1280\"\u003eModoru Okinawa\u003c\/em\u003e is a necessary entry in the Darwin catalogue, resonating alongside Tomatsu’s and Moriyama’s views of postwar Japan, but carrying its own brutal rhythm — one of shock, seduction and the flicker of cultural collapse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1497\" data-end=\"1516\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1497\" data-end=\"1516\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1518\" data-end=\"1916\"\u003eTitle: Modoru Okinawa\u003cbr data-start=\"1539\" data-end=\"1542\"\u003eArtist \/ Author: Keizo Kitajima\u003cbr data-start=\"1573\" data-end=\"1576\"\u003eDate: 2015\u003cbr data-start=\"1586\" data-end=\"1589\"\u003eTechnique \/ Printing Method: Duotone and Tritone\u003cbr data-start=\"1637\" data-end=\"1640\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Hardcover, black cloth backstrip, sewn binding\u003cbr data-start=\"1706\" data-end=\"1709\"\u003eEdition: First edition, numbered 478\/1000\u003cbr data-start=\"1750\" data-end=\"1753\"\u003eSigned: No\u003cbr data-start=\"1763\" data-end=\"1766\"\u003eDimensions (cm): 24 x 17.5 cm\u003cbr data-start=\"1795\" data-end=\"1798\"\u003eLanguage: Japanese \/ English\u003cbr data-start=\"1826\" data-end=\"1829\"\u003ePages: 136\u003cbr data-start=\"1839\" data-end=\"1842\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor: Gomma Books Ltd.\u003cbr data-start=\"1878\" data-end=\"1881\"\u003eISBN: Not stated\u003cbr data-start=\"1897\" data-end=\"1900\"\u003eCondition: NEW\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52562012176722,"sku":null,"price":120.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/TODWEBB_copy_3.jpg?v=1769359678"},{"product_id":"camp-1979-keizo-kitajima北島敬三-super-labo-2015","title":"CAMP 1979, Keizo Kitajima(北島敬三) , SUPER LABO 2015","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"46\" data-end=\"581\"\u003eA raw dispatch from the streets at the height of Japan’s post-war photographic avant-garde. 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Long difficult to access, this publication revisits a pivotal moment in Japanese photography, when the street became both stage and battleground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"583\" data-end=\"793\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"583\" data-end=\"602\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"602\" data-end=\"605\"\u003eTitle: CAMP 1979\u003cbr data-start=\"621\" data-end=\"624\"\u003eArtist \/ Author: Keizo Kitajima\u003cbr data-start=\"655\" data-end=\"658\"\u003eDate: 2014\u003cbr data-start=\"668\" data-end=\"671\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Softcover photobook\u003cbr data-start=\"710\" data-end=\"713\"\u003eLanguage: Japanese and English\u003cbr data-start=\"743\" data-end=\"746\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor: SUPER LABO\u003cbr data-start=\"776\" data-end=\"779\"\u003eCondition: New\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SUPER LABO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53765869207890,"sku":null,"price":39.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/TODWEBB_copy_copy_2_94ad4b92-a8e5-4627-b963-8276b488d24e.jpg?v=1781621628"}],"url":"https:\/\/thedarwin.es\/collections\/keizo-kitajima-%e5%8c%97%e5%b3%b6%e6%95%ac%e4%b8%89.oembed","provider":"DaRWIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}