Shashin Tokkyubin Tokyo / Photo-mail Tokyo

Keizo Kitajima
Shashin Tokkyubin Tokyo / Photo-mail Tokyo

Photographs: Keizo Kitajima

Publisher: Paroru-sha

152 pages

Year: 1980

Comments: Softcover under dust jacket, with obi, and a double-spread fold-out poster. 260 x 185 mm. First edition, 1980. Here is one of the remaining copies of the 1980's book sold with a newly designed obi. Copy in very good condition. Collectible and scarce copy!

Keizo Kitajima's 1980 publication Shashin Tokkyubin / Photo-mail from Tokyo combines some of his previously exhibited and published works from Photo Express : Tokyo with his colour work from that period. Kitajima's photographs are radical in every way. One can clearly sense where his roots are ( the visual language of the late 1960s Provoke group), but with these works he is moving a step aside, finding his own unique photographic style. The Punk movement was in full bloom, sending cultural shock-waves around the world. Kitajima's high contrast black and white works are electrifying, and the majority of the colour works in this book are playful and sexually provocative images perfectly capturing the zeitgeist.

Andreas Bitesnich