KITAI, Kazuo

Sanrizuka 1969-1971

Tokyo: Nora-sha, 1971. First Edition. Quarto. SIGNED by Kazuo Kitai in English and Japanese. A documentation of the Sanrizuka farmers' opposition and resistance to the government's plan to build Narita airport. The most powerful example we have seen of an entire subset of little-known Japanese photobooks that deal with this struggle. Although not an official member of Provoke, Kitai was a pioneer in the photographic style championed by the group. His first book, Resistance, published in 1965, was greatly admired by the founders of Provoke, Daido Moriyama and Takuma Nakahira. Light foxing to the edges, small vertical crease down the spine; near fine in illustrated wrappers in the near fine publisher's card slipcase (a little darkened).