{"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","url":"https:\/\/thedarwin.es\/products\/modoru-okinawa-keizo-kitajima-first-edition-2015","provider":"DaRWIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}