Iroha - Kazuo Kitai language ” a critically important piece

” a critically important piece published ten years after the others

the rules and boundaries of roles and representation

so as to live wisely alongside our difficulties

This issue of Jacobin takes a hard look at the politics of borders

The patchwork of impressions includes street furniture

Iroha - Kazuo Kitai language ” a critically important pieceIn this new series, Kazuo Kitai revisits his own photographic archives: faces, bodies under tension, marching crowds, fragments of resistance. Known for documenting the protest movements in Japan during the 1960s, he now chooses to reactivate these images through a radical gesture. By tearing his silver prints and covering them with paint, Kitai transforms photography into raw material. The documentary becomes abstraction; the image becomes a surface