Hiroshi Kubota: Photographer

Hiroji Kubota Photographer

🎬This masterpiece, a summary of Magnum Photographer and world traveler Hiroji Kubota's photographic career, features hundreds of photos spanning the Eurasian continent, along with interviews spanning tens of thousands of words, offering us diverse perspectives on the world.
📍Having traveled to China, North Korea, Japan, the United States, Vietnam, India, Cambodia and many other places, Kubota Hiroji always maintains a sense of participation in the reality of the "present" with his frankness and directness. He faces reality with a close-up lens and presents the past and future of the contemporary world without judgment. The archer has not yet fired, but the arrow has already hit the target.
⚡Whether it is strolling from the United States in the 1960s to North Korea in the 1980s,
In the turbulent 1980s, he walked from the streets of Hong Kong to the square of the Potala Palace.
Or perhaps you're traveling between vivid and gorgeous Japanese landscapes and black and white battlefield shorthand.
Hiroji Kubota's gaze always maintains a sense of participation in the reality of the "present" and a vivid historical penetration, allowing him to feel the beauty, cruelty, simplicity and complexity of the world we live in.
Editor's Pick: Magnum Photographer, a World-Wide Artist: The first Japanese member of the world-class photography agency Magnum Photos and the first foreign photographer authorized to photograph China on a large scale, he traveled the world over a career spanning over 50 years, using his lens to chronicle the clash and integration of social civilizations.
A 500-page tome: Over 500 pages of large-format work, this culminates the photographer's life's work, encompassing nearly all of Kubota's major projects, from his reporting from the United States in the 1960s to his unparalleled journeys to North Korea, China, Southeast Asia, and Japan.
Face the harsh reality with the lens: I didn’t grow up in a dark room” - the Black Panther Party, the Vietnam War and even the Sioux Memorial Parade are all intertwined in this book. The photographer widely intervenes in various social issues and major events, without making judgments or avoiding them, facing the reality with a close-up lens, presenting a more vivid contemporary world.
For over fifty years, Magnum photographer Hiroji Kubota has traveled extensively, capturing the world around him. From his coverage of the Black Panther Party in the mid-1960s to his unparalleled journeys to North Korea, Kubota has documented the history and present of diverse cultures around the globe. This magnificent visual biography captures his finest work, encompassing nearly every major project and interspersed with illuminating essays. It is an exceptional guide to understanding the photographer's career.
The excellence of Mr. Kubota's photos lies in their frankness and directness, which require no interpretation. His skill is to observe without trickery, to record without judgment.
—Elliott Erwitt (former president of Magnum, renowned photographer)
For much of his career, Bo Er has focused on major global events. From the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s to the Vietnam War, from documenting China's transformation to his exclusive coverage of North Korea and his beloved Japan, Bo Er and his camera have witnessed many of the most significant shifts of the past 50 years... His insightful photographs offer answers, revealing the consequences of modern practices and issuing calls to action worldwide. Bo Er is always learning from society, perpetually using his universal language—photography—to offer us perspectives unavailable elsewhere.
—Mark Rubell (Executive Director of the International Center of Photography, New York)
Kubota is the product of many influences, experiences, and cultures, but his own culture remains a guiding force. His impeccable photographs have been compared to the Zen art of Kyudo, where attitude, movement, and technique are harmoniously integrated; beauty is valued for its effect on the soul; and the arrow is already aimed before the archer releases it.
—Alison Nordstrom (scholar, writer, curator)

2023-03-01

北京联合出版公司

the new wave

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9787559664853