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Kikuji Kawada
Kikuji Kawada / The Map
HC in slipcase, 16 x 23 cm., 200 pp., translation of original text.
Nazraeli 2005
Vergriffen / out of stock
"Kawada came of age during the era of postwar reconstruction in Japan. He finished his degree in economics at the Rikkyo Univeristy in Tokyo and is a self-taught photographer. After school, in 1955, he went to work as a staff photographer for the publishing house Shinchosa. He quit after four years to go freelance. He was one of the founding members of the Vivo Agency, along with Shomei Tomatsu and Eikoh Hosoe, among others.
Common themes in his work are the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japanese political consciousness and national symbols, and, the aftermath of war in Japan." SKJ-
Which is a nice understatement. Since, with The Map Kawada published one of the most haunting, important photobooks, a solitary expression that implodes into black.
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Ausstellungen von/mit Kikuji Kawada
» Check: Kikuji Kawada @ Photography-now.com 24.09. - 04.12.2011: Photographs of Children - the child within us , Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of P, Tôkyô, J
10.05. - 25.06.2011: Nikko - A Parable , Photo Gallery International, Tôkyô, J
13.05. - 10.07.2010: World's End 2008-2010 , Photo Gallery International, Tôkyô, J
17.11. - 30.01.2009: Memories of Faraway Places: Memoir 1951-1966 , Photo Gallery International, Tôkyô, J
12.10. - 10.11.2006: Invisible City , Photo Gallery International, Tôkyô, J
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