Camp 1979
Keizo Kitajima
€ 55
Published by Super Labo in 2015, 32 pages, 21,6×28 cm
First edition, softcover with gatefold covers, text in Japanese
Near fine
Presentation by Keizo Kitajima on the publisher’s website:
Image Shop Camp, an independent gallery, opened in 1976, at 2 chome street in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district. Six graduates of WORK SHOP Daido Moriyama class including me were participating.
This is where I showed my photos of Tokyo from January to December 1979, in a radically new way.
The series, PHOTO EXPRESS: TOKYO (Shashin Tokkyubin: Tokyo), was accompanied by a monthly, 16-page booklet, with issues numbered 1 to 12. The shooting location was the center of 2 chome street in Shinjuku around CAMP.
I presented grids of images or enlarged prints, impromptu, immediately after the photo session, almost in real time.
Far from wishing to embody an intention that would be prior to the act of taking the photograph, I sought to produce images in a mechanical way, beyond my control: the accidental became a means of experiencing the world.”