KITAJIMA, Keizo

Tokyo: Biyakuja-shobo, 1982. First edition. 188pp; b&w plates. Titled gray paper over boards; photo-illustrated dust jacket; obi. Foxing to endleaves; light toning to page edges; light shelfwear. Very good in a near fine jacket, mildly sunned at spine and with scattered foxing to interior. First edition of this work of street photography by Japanese photographer Keizo Kitajima (b. 1954); an electrifying portrait of early 1980s New York in all its glamour, mayhem, and depravity. With an interview of Kitajima at rear in Japanese and English, and a list of photographs in Japanese. Uncommon, particularly in the first-state tan obi seen here. Parr & Badger, v3, p. 222; Ryuchi & Heiting 500.