Hiroji Kubota Photographer

Wherever Mr. Kubota worked he maintained a Japanese aesthetic sensibility—and a passion to create beauty that was his reaction to growing up in devastated postwar Japan. – The Wall Street Journal

The new Aperture monograph Hiroji Kubota Photographer is a stunning document. In more than 500 large, luscious pages, it provides a showcase for a pageant of images offering a concentrated examination of the camera’s power to record and reveal, and of the vision of a skilled photographer who seemed, almost instinctively, to have been in the right place at the right time over and over and again. – Hyperallergic

…serves as a compelling starting point for exploring the themes, inquisitive spirit and technical innovations that characterized some of the most original documentary-photography artists of postwar Japan – Hyperallergic

It's the work of a photographer for whom making an excellent picture seems second nature. – Mother Jones

Kubota gives us a truly unique look at the transition of the world from the tumultuous '60s to the 2000s. – Mother Jones

Elliott Erwitt asks in his preface: Hiroji Kubota, exactly where have you been these past fifty years? After a few million miles of travel and photography, what do you make of our planet? This book provides the answer. Hiroji Kubota Photographer traces a compelling journey from his documentation of a turbulent America in the 1960s to his sweeping color panoramas of China, Korea, and Japan. In this sumptuous visual biography, the first survey of his work, Magnum’s Tokyo-based photographer emerges as a brilliant chronicler of the world and of our times.