Expressionism by Kazuo Kitai (3 results)
More imagesLanguage: English
Published by E. P. Dutton., 1974
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- First Edition
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. SIgned with Chinese characters. Very good condition. Collection of photographs of 1920 expressionism. Chinese and English text.
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JP Oversized. Condition: Brand New. Japanese language. 10.39x7.64x0.55 inches. In Stock.
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Add to basketCondition: Wie neu. Tosei-Sha Publishing, Tokyo. 2008. First edition, first printing. Wonderfully and bodly signed by Kazuo Kitai! New, mint, unread; only opened once for signature. Scarce! One of the most interesting photobooks about germany: Thomas Wiegand, Manfred Heiting, Deutschland im Fotobuch, page 98! Hardcover with dust…jacket. 198 x 264 mm. 72 pages. 35 photos. Text: Susumu Terada, Kazuo Kitai. Layout: Satsuki Ishiyama. Produced by: Kunihiro Takahashi. Kazuo Kitai has been a photographer working in a primarily documentary style since the mid-60s, and is primarily known for his two books Sanrizuka and To the Village. However, in 1980 he traveled to Germany and photographed German expressionist architecture over a four-month period -- a quite radical departure from the grainy, raw black and white photography he had done before. His German expressionist work was serialized in a monthly photography magazine in Japan, but the series was abandoned by the publishers mid-way through. The present work, published in 2008, handsomely brings this work to a much-deserved wider audience. As Susumu Terada writes in the book`s introduction (available in Japanese and English, as is Kitai`s afterword): ".by viewing the photos in this book, we are able to understand how the photographer had developed his work from documentary photography to artistic documentary photography. In the temporal sense, the photos in this book follow the ones found in Sanrizuka and Mura e. But the photos in this book can also be seen as the manifestation of the originality that the photographer inherently possessed."***************Tosei-Sha Publishing, Tokyo. 2008. Japanische Erstausgabe. Originalausgabe. Wunderschön signiert von Kazuo Kitai! Neu, ungelesen, verlagsfrisch; nur einmal geöffnet für die Signatur! Selten! Eines der interessantesten Fotobücher über Deutschland: Thomas Wiegand, Manfred Heiting, Deutschland im Fotobuch, Seite 98! Hardcover mit Schutzumschlag. 198 x 264 mm. 72 Seiten. 35 Fotos. Text: Susumu Terada, Kazuo Kitai. Layout: Satsuki Ishiyama. Herausgeber: Kunihiro Takahashi. "Die Fotos stammen aus der Zeit um 1979 und handeln von der Architektur des deutschen Expressionismus, zu der Kitai sogar die Hamburger Speicherstadt zählte. Auch dass die Motive nicht näher erläutert sind, zeigt, dass es sich keinesfalls um ein stringent dokumentierendes Architekturbuch handelt. Es ist das Ergebnis einer "dreamy four-month journey", die der japanische Fotograf durch beide Deutschlands unternommen hatte. Er wollte die Relikte der kurzen, revolutionären Architekturepoche auf sich wirken lassen in der Hoffnung, dass ihn die Baudenkmäle für die Weiterentwicklung seiner Bildsprache inspirierten. Fotos von seiner Reise erschienen erstmals als (abgebrochene) Serie im Jahrgang 1979 des Asahi Camera Magazine." (Thomas Wiegand) ja Gewicht in Gramm: 1600.
