New York – Keizo Kitajima – Signed

Description

New York (New Edition) (Signed)
Keizo Kitajima

Publisher: PCT

Publication Year: 2021

Pages: 250 pages

Binding: Softcover

This 2024 edition brings together two series of photographs by Keizo Kitajima made in New York: the first in black and white, taken in 1981 and 1982 (previously published in Kitajima’s 1982 book “New York”), and the second in color, taken in 1986, 1987, and 1989.
The book begins with Kitajima’s series from the early 1980s. Arriving in New York for the first time, Kitajima rented an apartment in the East Village and devoted himself entirely to photography: he left his apartment at 10 a.m., photographed until evening, took a break, then returned to the streets to shoot more. On rainy days, he worked in his darkroom at home. In these black-and-white images, Kitajima captures New York at the possible peak of its cultural significance: gritty, impoverished, and dangerous, yet intensely diverse, multicultural, expressive, and creative.