KAZUO KITAI - COLOR - SOMEHOW FAMILIAR PLACES

KAZUO KITAI
COLOR - SOMEHOW FAMILIAR PLACES

Published by PCT, 2021
Book Size 23.5 × 23.5 cm
Pages 88 pages
Hardcover
Language English, Japanese
ISBN 978-4-910646-00-8

An invaluable collection of the Japanese master's rare color photographs
“Color – Somehow Familiar Places” offers readers a chance to see rare and previously unpublished color photographs by Kazuo Kitai, one of Japan's most important photographers. Split into two chapters, the book opens with photographs taken in Japan in the 1970s, a time of fundamental change when “Japan threw off its old clothes and changed into new ones” and villages changed their appearance as much as the booming metropolises.

“When I look back at what monochrome and color photography meant to me, it feels as if black and white was the backroad of my photographic life, while color film was the grand boulevard, a road I walked on with a little hesitation, a little awkwardness.” — from Kazuo Kitai's afterword

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A priceless collection of rare color photographs by the Japanese master
“Color – Somehow Familiar Places” offers readers a chance to see never-before-seen photographs by Kazuo Kitai, one of Japan’s most important photographers. Divided into two chapters, the book opens with photographs taken in Japan in the 1970s, a time of fundamental change when “Japan shed its old clothes and changed into new ones” and villages changed in appearance as much as the booming metropolises.
The second chapter consists of unpublished photographs taken during a photo assignment in Paris. Told by his editor to "shoot the scenes you always do, children standing alone in the landscape," Kitai spent two months in France (his first trip abroad) photographing people on the streets of Paris.
"When I look back on what monochrome and color photography meant to me, I feel that black and white was the back road of my photographic life, while color film was the main road, a road I took with some hesitation, some clumsiness." — from Kazuo Kitai's afterword