KAZUO KITAI - TO THE VILLAGE

KAZUO KITAI
To the villages

Published by Tankosha,1980
Book size 18.5 x 23.5 cm
Pages 380 pages
First edition
Softcover with a dust jacket
Language Japanese
The dust jacket is slightly worn, yellowing of the pages

“The 1970's in Japan was an era that threw off its old coat and changed it for a new one. In the cities as well as agricultural villages, everywhere in Japan, it destroyed old buildings carrying history and built new buildings like inorganic, tasteless consumables. Every corner of the muddy, uneven paths was paved with asphalt, turning them into roads that do not have any stories. Due to the changeover from an agricultural country to an industrialized nation and due to the sudden economic growth, the workforce moved away from the countryside and gathered in the big cities.” -Kazuo Kitai

The rare first edition of the To the villages, published in 1980, by photographer Kazuo Kitai features poetic black and white landscape photography of Japan. Kazuo Kitai is a photographer known for his photography in documenting protests in the 1960's and 1970's.

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“The 1970s in Japan were an era that threw off its old coat and changed it into a new one. In cities and farming villages alike, all over Japan, it tore down old buildings full of history and built new ones like inorganic and tasteless consumables. Every corner of the muddy and uneven paths was paved with asphalt, turning them into uneventful roads. Due to the shift from an agricultural country to an industrialized nation and due to the sudden economic growth, the workforce moved away from the countryside and gathered in big cities.” -Kazuo Kitai

The rare first edition of To the villages, published in 1980, by photographer Kazuo Kitai features poetic black and white landscape photographs of Japan. Kazuo Kitai is a photographer known for his photographs documenting the protests of the 1960s and 1970s.