Keizo Kitajima is a photographer born in Nagano Prefecture in 1954. From the late 1970s through the 1980s, he sharply captured cities and people in Tokyo, New York, Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union, opening up important forms of expression in postwar Japanese photography.
This book was published in conjunction with Isolated Places, an exhibition held at Rat Hole Gallery in 2012. It is composed of works from the series of the same name, photographed across Japan between 1992 and 2012.
In contrast to the close-range gaze directed toward cities and people in his early work, this series quietly observes landscapes encountered during his travels. Photographs of old warehouses, vacant lots, roads with little human presence, mountain villages, and remote islands reveal not only the documentary qualities of each place, but also the time and memory contained within the places themselves.
Isolated Places Keizo Kitajima Rat Hole Gallery, 2012 258 × 220 × 13 mm Signed
