CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 1/17/2016

Hiroji Kubota: Photographer

Japanese photojournalist Hiroji Kubota's 1963 photograph of activists at the historic March on Washington, DC, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his revolutionary "I Have a Dream" speech is reproduced from Aperture's revelatory new 512-page monograph. Kubota, who was six years old when Japan ceded the Second World War, has shot everything from the civil rights movement in America to state parades in North Korea. He is the product of many influences, experiences and cultures," writes Alison Nordström, "but his own culture persists as a normative force. His impeccable images may be analogous to kyudo, the Zen practice of archery, in which attitude, movement and technique unite in harmony; beauty is valued for its effect on the spirit; and the arrow exists in the target even before the archer lets fly."