Cohen Amador Gallery 41 E 57 Street 6 Fl NY 10022 New York États-Unis
Amador Gallery is pleased to announce "The Joy of Portraits", the second gallery exhibition of iconic Japanese photographer Keizo Kitajima. In 1976, Kitajima made his impressive debut with photographs capturing Koza in Okinawa, a town near the US military base, in the period just after the end of the Vietnam War. Subsequenty, he expanded his purview to include Tokyo, New York and Eastern Europe. While the photographs he made during those periods strikes us with their dazzling quality, Kitajima drastically changed his method of photographing after he visited the Soviet Union in 1991, as that nation was on the verge of collapsing. The exhibition will include work spanning the period 1976 - 1991, including works from each of these series.
Keizo Kitajima was born in Nagano in 1954. When he was twenty-one years old, Kitajima participated in Daido Moriyama's class at the Workshop of Shashin Gakko (Photo School). In the next year he opened the independent gallery Image Shop CAMP with Moriyama and fellow students. Kitajima was awarded the New Artist Award form the Japan Photo Critics Association in 1981, and the 8th Kimura Ihei Award in 1983 for his photobook New York, which he published at age twenty-nine. His work is the current focus of a major retrospective at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Japan and coincides with the publication of The Joy Of Portraits, published by Rat Hole Gallery in Tokyo.