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| John Gossage - The Code |
This coming Monday, August 20, Dashwood Books NYC, presents a signing of new books by John Gossage and Kazuo Kitai, published by Harper's Books.
American photographer John Gossage is known for his numerous book
projects and has long been a lover and admirer of Japanese photography.
Gossage was asked to design Kitai's book, and to join the project by
contributing his own photographs to Kitai's exhibition, being shown at
Harper's Books August 18 through October 1 in Easthampton, NY. In September
2011, Gossage traveled to Tokyo to meet with Kitai and shoot the images
for his new book, The Code. These color photographs signal a departure
from Gossage's usual territory. While his revelatory sanctification of
the banal is inescapable, here we see a subtle shift to a more
accessible perspective, with several luminous street scenes, and a host
of pictures that capture the irrepressible beauty rooted in the fabric
of the Japanese experience.
Kazuo
Kitai began his photographic career in 1965 at the young age of 22.
Japan was on the cusp of a sea change in its photographic culture, and
Kitai stood at the vanguard of this transition. After being persecuted
by the police who thought he was a radical, and abandoned by the leftist
radicals of the protest movement who saw him as a traitor, Kitai found
himself embedded within a cadre of ordinary students who took over the
Art Department at Nihon University in Tokyo. For four months, Kitai
manned the barricade and photographed the protesters in and around the
University, focusing more on the quotidian nature of their struggle,
rather than on images of police dispersing students in a haze of tear
gas. The Barricade series, shot in 1968, the pivotal year of global
protest, has never been published before outside of Japanese magazines.
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| Kazuo Kitai - Barricade |
Monday August 20th 2012, 6 - 8 pm, 33 Bond Street (between Bowery and Lafayette) New York, NY 10012
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