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Hiroshi Yamazaki
__NOTOC__ was a Japanese photographer whose works concentrate on the sun and the sea. Born in Nagano on 21 September 1946, Yamazaki studied at Nihon University but dropped out in 1968, starting out as a freelance cameraman a year later, working in both still photography and 16mm film.Hiromi Nakamura (), "Yamazaki Hiroshi" (), ''Nihon shashinka jiten'' () / ''328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers'' (Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000; ), p. 318 (despite its alternative title in English, the book is in Japanese only). Yamazaki is best known for two series. "Heliography" uses long exposures to show the path of the sun near the horizon. "Horizon" (''Suiheisen saishū'') is a study of sea horizons. Yamazaki won the 26th Ina Nobuo Award in 2001. Yamazaki became a full professor at Tohoku University of Art and Design in 1993, and also taught at Musashino Art University and TPO Photo School. He died on 5 June 2017 of cancer of the gums. Solo exhibitions by Yamazaki *"Observation". Galleria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese People
The are an East Asian ethnic group native to the Japanese archipelago."人類学上は，旧石器時代あるいは縄文時代以来，現在の北海道〜沖縄諸島（南西諸島）に住んだ集団を祖先にもつ人々。" () Japanese people constitute 97.9% of the population of the country of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 129 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 122.5 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live outside Japan are referred to as , the Japanese diaspora. Depending on the context, the term may be limited or not to mainland Japanese people, specifically the Yamato (as opposed to Ryukyuan and Ainu people). Japanese people are one of the largest ethnic groups in the world. In recent decades, there has also been an increase in the number of multiracial people with both Japanese and non-Japanese roots, including half Japanese people. History Theories of origins Archaeological evidence indi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Nagano Prefecture
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Photographers
Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspora, Japanese emigrants and their descendants around the world * Japanese citizens, nationals of Japan under Japanese nationality law ** Foreign-born Japanese, naturalized citizens of Japan * Japanese writing system, consisting of kanji and kana * Japanese cuisine, the food and food culture of Japan See also * List of Japanese people * * Japonica (other) * Japonicum * Japonicus * Japanese studies Japanese studies (Japanese: ) or Japan studies (sometimes Japanology in Europe), is a sub-field of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on Japan. It incorporates fields such as the study of Japanese ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1946 Births
Events January * January 6 - The 1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election, first general election ever in Vietnam is held. * January 7 – The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into four Allied-occupied Austria, occupation zones. * January 10 ** The first meeting of the United Nations is held, at Methodist Central Hall Westminster in London. ** ''Project Diana'' bounces radar waves off the Moon, measuring the exact distance between the Earth and the Moon, and proves that communication is possible between Earth and outer space, effectively opening the Space Age. * January 11 - Enver Hoxha declares the People's Republic of Albania, with himself as prime minister of Albania, prime minister. * January 16 – Charles de Gaulle resigns as head of the Provisional Government of the French Republic, French provisional government. * January 17 - The United Nations Security Council holds its first session, at Church House, Westmin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Center Of Photography
The International Center of Photography (ICP), at 79 Essex Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, consists of a museum for photography and visual culture and a school offering an array of educational courses and programming. ICP's photographic collection, reading room, and archives are at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, New Jersey. The organization was founded by Cornell Capa in 1974. ICP is the host of the Infinity Awards, inaugurated in 1985 "to bring public attention to outstanding achievements in photography by honoring individuals with distinguished careers in the field and by identifying future luminaries." History Since its founding in 1974 by Cornell Capa with help from Micha Bar-Am in Willard Straight House, on Fifth Avenue's Museum Mile, ICP has presented over 500 exhibitions, bringing the work of more than 3,000 photographers and other artists to the public in one-person and group exhibitions and provided various classes and workshops for st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris McCaw
Chris McCaw (born 1971) is an American photographer whose work is held in many public collections. Life and photography McCaw was born in Daly City, California, in 1971. He has a BFA from the Academy of Art College in San Francisco. McCaw is known for his large-format homemade cameras in which he uses expired gelatin silver photo paper and long exposures to make solarized paper negatives which often include the burned path of the sun within the frame, in a series named ''Sunburn''. McCaw travels to remote places to capture different apparent movements of the sun, including the Arctic Circle in Alaska, the Galápagos Islands and the Mojave Desert. McCaw's earlier work used a 7×17 inch view camera to create large-format negatives from which he made platinum prints. Projects following ''Sunburn'' include work with a modified Cirkut camera, resulting in exposures that can take more than 24 hours. A series titled ''Poli-optic'' employs a homemade camera with a grid of lenses. Fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokuko Ushioda
Tokuko Ushioda (潮田登久子, ''Ushioda Tokuko,'' b. 1940) is a Japanese photographer whose ''Bibliotecha'' series won the Domon Ken Award, the Photographic Society of Japan’s Photographic Society of Japan awards, Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Higashikawa International Photo Festival's Domestic Photographer Award in 2018. Ushioda has works in the collections of Smith College Museum of Art in Massachusetts; Mead Art Museum of Amherst College, Kyushu Sangyo University, Kyushu Sangyō University, Fukuoka, Japan; the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan; Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Ken Domon Museum of Photography, Yamagata, Japan; and Higashikawa, Hokkaido, Higashikawa Town, Hokkaido, Japan. Career Ushioda was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1940. She studied under Ōtsuji Kiyoji at Kuwasawa Design School and graduated in 1963. She also studied under Yasuhiro Ishimoto. She has worked as a freelance photographer since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akihide Tamura
is a Japanese photographer. He was born in Tokyo on 13 March 1947 as Shigeru Tamura (, ''Tamura Shigeru'').Akihide Tamura should not be confused with the well-known photographer Shigeru Tamura (1909–87), whose name is even written with the same ''kanji.'' (Perhaps part of the reason for the younger Tamura's change of name was to avoid this very confusion.) He studied at Tokyo College of Photography, graduating first in 1967 and then from a more advanced course two years later. Tamura's first solo exhibition — under the name Shigeru Tamura () — was ''Yume no hikari'' (Dream light) in Ginza Nikon Salon in 1969. He became known for his somewhat harsh monochrome depictions of landscapes. In 1974 his works appeared within the "New Japanese Photography" show in the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Tamura made the stills for several of the late films of Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed thirty films in a career spanning over f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Issei Suda
(24 April 1940 – 7 March 2019) was a Japanese photographer who " ombineda pure appreciation of Japanese customs with a sharp investigative eye".大澤友貴, 「須田一政」, 『フジフイルム・フォトコレクション展 富士フイルム株式会社創立80周年記念コレクション 日本の写真史を飾った写真家の「私の1枚」』 = ''101 Only One Photo Collection'' (Tokyo: Fujifilm, 2016; ), pp. 136/238. Life and career Born—as Kazumasa Suda ( ''Suda Kazumasa''「天井桟敷」カメラマン、写真家の須田一政さん死去 , '''', 7 March 2019. Accessed 7 March 2019. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masato Seto
is a Japanese Thai photographer. Biography Seto was born in Udon Thani, Thailand, to a Vietnamese mother and a Japanese father. He moved to Fukushima Prefecture, Japan in 1961 and studied photography at Tōkyō Shashin Senmon Gakkō (), graduating in 1973. After further study under Daidō Moriyama, Seto became an assistant to Masahisa Fukase in 1978. In 1981 he became a freelance. Seto has worked on various photographic projects. The best known may be ''Living Room,'' an exhibition and then a book of a strip of single and group portraits of Japanese and foreign residents of Tokyo in their homes. This won the Kimura Ihei Award The is a Japanese photography award. The award has been given every year since 1975 (except 1983) by the Asahi Shimbun Company, publisher of ''Asahi Shimbun'' and the magazine '' Asahi Camera'', in honor of the photographer Ihei Kimura was a J .... Seto in 2008 had his first solo show of photographs in his native country of Thailand. The exhibition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitsugu Ōnishi
Mitsugu Ōnishi (大西みつぐ,His personal name was originally written 貢. ''Ōnishi Mitsugu''; born 7 October 1952) is a Japanese photographer. Born in Tokyo, Ōnishi graduated from the Tokyo College of Photography in 1974, rejoining a year later as a teacher, and staying there in that capacity until 1994. Ōnishi photographed everyday life and his native Tokyo; he later turned his attention to suburban housing projects. Ōnishi won the 22nd Taiyō award in 1985, and the 18th Kimura Ihei Award The is a Japanese photography award. The award has been given every year since 1975 (except 1983) by the Asahi Shimbun Company, publisher of ''Asahi Shimbun'' and the magazine '' Asahi Camera'', in honor of the photographer Ihei Kimura was a J ... in 1993. In addition to the collections of his photographs, he has written books about photography and cameras. He continues to live in Tokyo. Notes Books of photographs by Ōnishi *''Wonder Land.'' Frog, 1989. *''Tōi natsu'' (遠 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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