KITAI, Kazuo

Mura e. / To the Village

Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun-sha, 1976. First Edition. Small quarto. SIGNED by Kitai in English and Japanese. Special Issue number 10 of Asahi Camera Magazine. Winner of the first annual Ihei Kimura Award. Fed up with urban life and the documentation of social unrest, Kitai ventured to rural Honshu to document a way of life that was quickly disappearing. This compelling work was expanded upon in Kitai's 1980 Tankosha publication under the same name. Near fine in photo-illustrated wrappers.