The Journey into 1920s German Expressionism Kazuo Kitai

This is a collection of works by photographer Kazuo Kitai. He visited unfamiliar places all over Japan to photograph the landscapes and people, and won the first Kimura Ihei Photography Award for his collection of works, "To the Village," which compiled these photographs. He has also produced many other works, including documentary photographs of the student movement protesting the conclusion of the Japan-US Security Treaty and interviews with farmers in Sanrizuka who opposed the construction of Narita Airport. Although Kitai had a serialization in the photography magazine Asahi Camera for two years and won some awards, Kitai felt a sense of crisis that he had acquired photography techniques and developed his own style, and lost confidence in his work. In order to overcome this slump, Kitai traveled twice to Germany, far from Japan, between 1979 and 1980, with photographer Chotoku Tanaka, who had been living in Vienna for eight years at the time, as his interpreter and guide, and took a total of four months of photography travel. This book is a collection of photographs taken during the course of the trip, featuring architecture built in the style of "expressionism," an art style that emphasizes the expression of the artist's inner feelings, and the people who lived there. How did he view these buildings, which have an unfading appeal even more than half a century after their construction? This is a book that allows you to confirm his perspective.