KITAJIMA, Keizo.

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New York. First edition, first printing, in the first issue wraparound band, without mention of the Ihei Kimura Book prize. Kitajima spent six months in New York City, capturing contrasting portraits of decadence and destitution: the famous faces of Mick Jagger and Madonna appear between photographs of homelessness, police arrests, and workers hurrying towards daybreak shifts.Kitajima was a student of Daido Moriyama, who praised him as "a street killer in broad daylight" (quoted by Merola). In 1976 they set up an experimental photography space together in Shinjuku, the gritty Tokyo district that shaped both of their styles.

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