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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. In excellent condition. 250 pages, softcover in thick wraps with dust jacket, 10" by 7.5". Artist's statement as afterword, in English and Japanese. Exceptional book by Japanese photographer Kazuo Kitai, a photodocument of farming villages and agrarian life in Japan in the 1970's. All images are previously unpublished, selected from an archive of over 2,500 images by Kitai. Beautifully printed and laid out, with 237 full-page black and white photos - serene and deceptively simple images of a vanishing lifestyle. There is something uncommonly transfixing about these photos - can't quite put my finger on it. A major body of work by a vastly undersung photographer. Rare. Seller Inventory # ABE-1704669956376
Book Description First edition. Softcover. Text primarily in Japanese but with some English as well. A collection of 237 black and white images taken in rural Japan. A fine copy in wrappers in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Kitai on the front free endpaper in Kanji. Seller Inventory # 171381