Interviews
Keizo Kitajima
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Keizo Kitajima in the former USSR
Keizo Kitajima describes his experience as a Japanese photographer working in the Soviet Union just before its dissolution, in 1991.
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Works in the Collection by Keizo Kitajima
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Keizo Kitajima
3/6/1991 Vladivostok, Russian SFSR. Indira, 17 years old. Originally born in Osetiya, she moved to Vladivostok when she was three., from the series 1991 USSR
1991, printed 2001 -
Keizo Kitajima
1/10/1991 Vilnius, Republic of Lithuania. A festival to commemorate the 650th anniversary of the death of Grand Duke Gediminas., from the series 1991 USSR
1991, printed 2001 -
Keizo Kitajima
12/10/1991 Moscow, Russian SFSR. A statue of Stalin being removed from its plinth. Many statues that symbolized the Soviet era were destroyed this year.
1991, printed 2001 -
Keizo Kitajima
7/10/1991 Tallinn, Republic of Estonia. Enn Sepp, 60 years old, a member of the Estonian National Independence Party. The KGB exiled him to a Far Eastern concentration camp located in the Arctic Circle.
1991, printed 2001 -
Keizo Kitajima
14/3/1991 Novosibirsk, Russian SFSR. Trains rest at Novosibirsk station in western Siberia. When the railway in Siberia was constructed, Novosibirsk was then at the intersection of two great transportation routes- the rivers and railways. The city......
1991, printed 2001 -
Keizo Kitajima
9/10/1991 Moscow, Russian SFSR. Funeral of rock singer Igor Talkov. During a concert, he was shot to death by a gunman connected to the Mafia. He was a devoted Russian Orthodox Christian and is said to have been a member of the Pamyat...
1991, printed 2001 -
Keizo Kitajima
19/3/1991 Krasnoyarsk, Russian SFSR. Andrey Samolenko, 43 years old, the security chief of the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric-power plant.The Krasnoyarsk plant began operations in 1967, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Russian Revolution. At the time, it...
1991, printed 2001