{"title":"Keizō Kitajima","description":"\u003cp\u003eKeizō Kitajima (b. 1954) is a Japanese photographer whose work emerged from the late-1970s Tokyo scene centred on the CAMP gallery and the broader post-Provoke generation. His \u003cem\u003ePhoto Express Tokyo\u003c\/em\u003e (1979) — a twelve-part series of monthly photographic booklets distributed in connection with a year-long exhibition — remains one of the defining serial photobook projects of the period. Working with high-contrast flash photography in nocturnal urban environments, Kitajima developed an approach in which the printed surface becomes as much the subject as the scene it records. The series was reissued in facsimile by Steidl and Le Bal in 2012.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"kitajima-keizo-photo-express-tokyo-no-2-1979","title":"Keizō Kitajima — Photo Express Tokyo No. 2, February 1979","description":"\u003cp\u003eTokyo, February 1979\u003cbr\u003eSoftcover photographic booklet\u003cbr\u003e16 pp.\u003cbr\u003e25.8 × 18.3 cm\u003cbr\u003eBlack-and-white offset print with spot colour\u003cbr\u003e200 yen cover price\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecond issue from Keizō Kitajima’s \u003cem\u003ePhoto Express Tokyo\u003c\/em\u003e, a twelve-part sequence of monthly photographic booklets published in 1979 in connection with his year-long exhibition project at CAMP gallery, Tokyo. Each issue contained sixteen pages and operated as both publication and immediate extension of the exhibition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe images are high-contrast, nocturnal, unstable. Figures emerge through flash, grain, clothing, cigarette smoke, sunglasses, surface glare. Tokyo appears less as city than as printed impact: bodies pressed into black ink, social space reduced to gesture, pose, and exposure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cover gives the structure clearly: Tokyo, No. 2, February 1979, 200 yen. The publication is not a later photobook in the conventional sense, but a fast object — made to circulate close to the time of the photographs and the exhibition itself. The booklet format keeps the work provisional, serial, and disposable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good. Surface rubbing, creasing, edge wear, and handling marks throughout. Stapled spine intact. General wear consistent with age and circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA printed fragment from one of the key late-1970s Japanese photobook projects: serial, urban, immediate, and already half-consumed by its own reproduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis appears to be an original 1979 issue, not the 2012 Steidl\/Le Bal facsimile, based on the single No. 2 booklet format, 200 yen cover price, period wear, and absence of slipcase, ISBN, or reprint markings. The 2012 edition reissued all twelve booklets as a facsimile set in slipcase. Offered as “apparently first issue” pending colophon confirmation.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period item, apparently first issue.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CAMP Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53289130983762,"sku":"KITAJIMA-PET-02-1979","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Kitajima_-Keizo.-1979-Photo-Express-Tokyo---back-cover.jpg?v=1777192178"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/collections\/Kitajima_-Keizo.-1979-Photo-Express-Tokyo_front_cover.jpg?v=1777192597","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/keizo-kitajima.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}