Kikuji Kawada on the Atomic Bomb Dome and postwar Japan
by SFMOMA

Kikuji KAWADA “Vortex” / 川田喜久治『Vortex』

by shashasha

VORTEX

Page by page flipping through the book.“Vortex” consists of images selected from the vast amount of works uploaded by the 89-year old Kawada to his Instagram account in the past years. The book blends photographs recently shot in Kawada’s home of Tokyo with works taken and exhibited decades ago. The city lost in the midst of a pandemic, drowning in the gushing chaos of its physical and sociological structures.

Photographer Kikuji Kawada discusses Chizu (The Map) (1960–65), his series on the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, the Japanese military, and the post–World War II economic boom in Japan.

Video source | SFMOMA
https://www.sfmoma.org/watch/kikuji-kawada-atomic-bomb-dome-and-postwar-japan/

Kikuji Kawada. 1998. Japanese Photographers series vol 33, Iwananami publishers
by fofo foto

IWANAMI

A page by page visual of this book, which is part of a series on Japanese photographers, presents a large number of Kawada san’s series in color and black and white (among them, The Map, Sacre [can you put an accent on this E?] Atavism, Los Caprichos, and Last Cosmology) (2:53min)

The Photographer of ‘The Map’ CHIZU: Kikuji Kawada
directed by Yasuyuki Takagi.

“The Photographer of ‘The Map’ CHIZU: Kikuji Kawada” is a just released video which includes the artist as well as the graphic designer, Kohei Suguira, who together produced one of the last century’s most unique, immersive and influential photobooks. The short film was directed by Yasuyuki Takagi.

Presenting The Map by Kikuji Kawada
by Jörg Colberg

THE MAP

See the layout and what “looking” at this iconic and much discussed book entails. Jörg Colbert is a writer on contemporary photography, a professor of photography at the Hartford Art School, and founder and editor of Conscientious, a blog dedicated to contemporary fine-art photography. He is also the author of Understanding Photobooks: The Form and Content of the Photographic Book (Focal Press, 2016).