Shashin Tokkyubin Tokyo (Photo-mail Tokyo)
Keizo Kitajima
1980
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Reminiscent of the Provoke aesthetic in its grainy and experimental sensibility, this almost oneiric documentation of Shinjuku's nightlife alternates black-and-white photographs with exuberant bursts of colour, capturing one of Tokyo's most glamorous and enigmatic districts. ...
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Shashin Tokkyubin Tokyo (Photo-mail Tokyo)
Keizo Kitajima
1980
Tokyo: Paroru-sha
Unpaginated [156 pages]
26.5 × 18.5 cm
Signed

Reminiscent of the Provoke aesthetic in its grainy and experimental sensibility, this almost oneiric documentation of Shinjuku's nightlife alternates black-and-white photographs with exuberant bursts of colour, capturing one of Tokyo's most glamorous and enigmatic districts. A student of Daido Moriyama at Workshop (1974–1976), Kitajima emerged as one of the defining figures in Japanese street photography of the 1970s and 1980s. His visual narrative is syncopated like a free jazz suite, its rhythm shaped by nocturnal characters who appear less as flesh-and-blood people than as fleeting epiphanies. Provocative and untamed, his photographs render visible the city's underground worlds—the hedonistic, the decadent, and the neon-lit. Moriyama himself praised Kitajima's extraordinary instinct as a photographer, calling him a street killer in broad daylight.

Tokyo: Paroru-sha
Unpaginated [156 pages]
26.5 × 18.5 cm
Signed

Reminiscent of the Provoke aesthetic in its grainy and experimental sensibility, this almost oneiric documentation of Shinjuku's nightlife alternates black-and-white photographs with exuberant bursts of colour, capturing one of Tokyo's most glamorous and enigmatic districts. A student of Daido Moriyama at Workshop (1974–1976), Kitajima emerged as one of the defining figures in Japanese street photography of the 1970s and 1980s. His visual narrative is syncopated like a free jazz suite, its rhythm shaped by nocturnal characters who appear less as flesh-and-blood people than as fleeting epiphanies. Provocative and untamed, his photographs render visible the city's underground worlds—the hedonistic, the decadent, and the neon-lit. Moriyama himself praised Kitajima's extraordinary instinct as a photographer, calling him a street killer in broad daylight.

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Reminiscent of the Provoke aesthetic in its grainy and experimental sensibility, this almost oneiric documentation of Shinjuku's nightlife alternates black-and-white photographs with exuberant bursts of colour, capturing one of Tokyo's most glamorous and enigmatic districts. A student of Daido Moriyama at Workshop (1974–1976), Kitajima emerged as one of the defining figures in Japanese street photography of the 1970s and 1980s. His visual narrative is syncopated like a free jazz suite, its rhythm shaped by nocturnal characters who appear less as flesh-and-blood people than as fleeting epiphanies. Provocative and untamed, his photographs render visible the city's underground worlds—the hedonistic, the decadent, and the neon-lit. Moriyama himself praised Kitajima's extraordinary instinct as a photographer, calling him a street killer in broad daylight.

Tokyo: Paroru-sha
Unpaginated [156 pages]
26.5 × 18.5 cm
Signed

Reminiscent of the Provoke aesthetic in its grainy and experimental sensibility, this almost oneiric documentation of Shinjuku's nightlife alternates black-and-white photographs with exuberant bursts of colour, capturing one of Tokyo's most glamorous and enigmatic districts. A student of Daido Moriyama at Workshop (1974–1976), Kitajima emerged as one of the defining figures in Japanese street photography of the 1970s and 1980s. His visual narrative is syncopated like a free jazz suite, its rhythm shaped by nocturnal characters who appear less as flesh-and-blood people than as fleeting epiphanies. Provocative and untamed, his photographs render visible the city's underground worlds—the hedonistic, the decadent, and the neon-lit. Moriyama himself praised Kitajima's extraordinary instinct as a photographer, calling him a street killer in broad daylight.

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Reminiscent of the Provoke aesthetic in its grainy and experimental sensibility, this almost oneiric documentation of Shinjuku's nightlife alternates black-and-white photographs with exuberant bursts of colour, capturing one of Tokyo's most glamorous and enigmatic districts. A student of Daido Moriyama at Workshop (1974–1976), Kitajima emerged as one of the defining figures in Japanese street photography of the 1970s and 1980s. His visual narrative is syncopated like a free jazz suite, its rhythm shaped by nocturnal characters who appear less as flesh-and-blood people than as fleeting epiphanies. Provocative and untamed, his photographs render visible the city's underground worlds—the hedonistic, the decadent, and the neon-lit. Moriyama himself praised Kitajima's extraordinary instinct as a photographer, calling him a street killer in broad daylight.

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