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Photographer Kazuo Kitai is one of the great masters of Japanese photography, yet he remains little known in Europe. Since the 1960s, he has documented Japanese society “from the inside”: student movements, farmers’ struggles, villages destined to disappear, rapidly growing suburbs, ordinary moments… This retrospective offers a way to grasp the evolution of a deeply humanist gaze, attentive to Japan’s transformations and to the memory of those who live there. Through nearly 130 prints, it presents a complete journey through his work, from the activist series of the 1960s and 1970s to his most recent works made at home.
The exhibition is organized around four sections: the first, Rise Up / Sanrizuka, Resistance, Barricades, looks back at Kitai’s early years, particularly through his series on student struggles. Then, with Life in the Countryside / Vaguely Familiar Landscapes, Toward the Villages, visitors are immersed in the melancholy of the Japanese countryside of the 1970s. The third section, titled Living in an Urban Environment / Funabashi Story, Stories of Shinsekai, explores the everyday life of the middle class in the commuter towns of the Tokyo suburbs in the 1980s, as well as the working-class district of Shinsekai in Osaka. The exhibition closes with a section dedicated to the photographer’s more intimate work (Walks with My Leica) and one of his latest series, IROHA, which shows his undiminished ability to reinvent himself at the age of 80. Around the exhibition Opening lecture / Wednesday, April 29 at 6 p.m. Satomi Fujimura, exhibition curator Cinema > Documentaries by Shinsuke Ogawa – Living in struggles, living in places Thursday, April 30 / Friday, May 22 / Saturday, June 20 Lecture > Politics of the Street / Tuesday, June 16 at 6:30 p.m. Nicolas Pinet (sociologist and lecturer in Japanese studies at Aix-Marseille University)
Price: Price: €5 / Reduced: €3 Booking: www.mcjp.fr
Source: paris.fr — photo: © Kazuo Kitai