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Ikkō Narahara
Ikkō Narahara picture. was a Japanese photographer. His work is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Early life and education Born in Fukuoka, Narahara studied law at Chuo University (graduating in 1954) and, influenced by statues of Buddha at Nara, art history at the graduate school of Waseda University, from which he received an MA in 1959. Career He had his first solo exhibition, ''Ningen no tochi'' (Human land), at the Matsushima Gallery ( Ginza) in 1956. In this Narahara showed Kurokamimura, a village on Sakurajima. The exhibition brought instant renown. In his second exhibition, "Domains", at the Fuji Photo Salon in 1958, he showed a Trappist monastery in Tobetsu ( Hokkaidō), and a women's prison in Wakayama. In the meantime, Narahara had shown his works in the first (1957) of three exhibitions titled The Eyes of Ten; exhibited in all three, and went on to co-found the short-lived Vivo collective. From 1962 to 1965 he stayed in Paris, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ikkō Narahara
Ikkō Narahara picture. was a Japanese photographer. His work is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Early life and education Born in Fukuoka, Narahara studied law at Chuo University (graduating in 1954) and, influenced by statues of Buddha at Nara, art history at the graduate school of Waseda University, from which he received an MA in 1959. Career He had his first solo exhibition, ''Ningen no tochi'' (Human land), at the Matsushima Gallery ( Ginza) in 1956. In this Narahara showed Kurokamimura, a village on Sakurajima. The exhibition brought instant renown. In his second exhibition, "Domains", at the Fuji Photo Salon in 1958, he showed a Trappist monastery in Tobetsu ( Hokkaidō), and a women's prison in Wakayama. In the meantime, Narahara had shown his works in the first (1957) of three exhibitions titled The Eyes of Ten; exhibited in all three, and went on to co-found the short-lived Vivo collective. From 1962 to 1965 he stayed in Paris, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyushu Sangyo University
was founded in 1960 in Fukuoka City, and currently has twenty departments and six graduate schools. It is a private university. Undergraduate Faculties and departments *Faculty of Economics **Department of Economics *Faculty of Commerce **Department of Commerce **Department of Tourism Industry *Evening School of Commerce **Department of Commerce **Department of Tourism Industry *Faculty of Management **Department of International Management **Department of Industrial Management *Faculty of Engineering **Department of Mechanical Engineering **Department of Electrical Engineering **Department of Applied Chemistry and Biochemistry **Department of Department of Civil and Urban Design Engineering **Department of Architecture **Department of Biorobotics **Department of Housing and Interior Design *Faculty of Fine Arts **Department of Fine Art **Department of Craft Art **Department of Design **Department of Photography *Faculty of International Studies of Culture **Department of Int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shōmei Tōmatsu
was a Japanese photographer. He is known primarily for his images that depict the impact of World War II on Japan and the subsequent occupation of U.S. forces. As one of the leading postwar photographers, Tōmatsu is attributed with influencing the younger generations of photographers including those associated with the magazine Provoke (Takuma Nakahira and Daido Moriyama). Biography Youth Tōmatsu was born in Nagoya in 1930. As an adolescent during World War II, he was mobilized to support Japan's war effort. Like many Japanese students his age, he was sent to work at a steel factory and underwent incessant conditioning intended to instill fear and hatred towards the British and Americans. Once the war ended and Allied troops took over numerous Japanese cities, Tōmatsu interacted with Americans firsthand and found that his preconceptions of them were not entirely salient. At the time Tōmatsu's contempt for the violence and crimes committed by these soldiers was complicated by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takeyoshi Tanuma
was a Japanese photographer. In 2019, the Japanese government honoured him with the Order of Culture The is a Japanese order, established on February 11, 1937. The order has one class only, and may be awarded to men and women for contributions to Japan's art, literature, science, technology, or anything related to culture in general; recipien ..., making him the first photographer to receive the order. References 1929 births 2022 deaths Japanese photographers Street photographers Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon Recipients of the Order of Culture Persons of Cultural Merit People from Tokyo {{Japan-photographer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shigeichi Nagano
__NOTOC__ was a Japanese photographer. He won the Ina Nobuo Award in 1986 and had a major retrospective at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in 2000. Life and work Nagano was born in Ōita City in Ōita Prefecture, and studied economics at Keio University (Tokyo). On graduating, he joined a trading company, but soon resigned. He was recruited by Natori Yōnosuke for ''Weekly Sun News'' (, ''Shūkan San Nyūsu''); and in 1949 moved to Iwanami Shoten where, again under Natori, he did the photography for about fifty of the slim volumes in Iwanami Shashin Bunko. In 1954 he went freelance, concentrating on magazine work. During the 1960s Nagano observed the period of intense economic growth in Japan, depicting the lives of Tokyo's '' sarariman'' with some humor. The photographs of this period were only published in book form much later, as ''Dorīmu eiji'' and ''1960'' (1978 and 1990 respectively). In 1964 Nagano worked on the cinemaphotography for Ichikawa Kon's film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ihei Kimura
was a Japanese photographer, known for his portrayal of Tokyo and Akita Prefecture. Life and work Born on 12 December 1901 in Shitaya-ku (now Taitō-ku), Tokyo, Kimura started taking photographs when very young but his interest intensified when he was around 20 and living in Tainan, Taiwan, where he was working for a sugar wholesaler. He opened a photographic studio in Nippori, Tokyo in 1924. In 1930, he joined the advertising section of the soap and cosmetics company Kaō, concentrating on informal photographs made with his Leica camera. In 1933, he joined Yōnosuke Natori and others in forming the group Nippon Kōbō ("Japan workshop"), which emphasized "realism" in photography using 35mm cameras; but this rapidly broke up and Kimura formed an alternative group, Chūō Kōbō ("central workshop") with Nobuo Ina and others. During the war, Kimura worked in Manchuria and for the publisher Tōhō-sha. He edited ''Front'', the propaganda photo journal of the Tōhō-sha compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kikuji Kawada
is a Japanese photographer. He co-founded the Vivo photographic collective in 1959.Kōtarō Iizawa, "The evolution of postwar photography" (chapter of Tucker et al., ''The History of Japanese Photography''), pp. 217, 210. Kawada's books include ''Chizu'' (''The Map''; 1965) and ''The Last Cosmology'' (1995). He was included in the ''New Japanese Photography'' exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1974New Japanese Photography , . Accessed 5 January 2015. and was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the |
Yasuhiro Ishimoto
was a Japanese-American photographer. Biography Ishimoto was born on June 14, 1921 in San Francisco, California, where his parents were farmers. In 1924, the family left the United States and returned to his parents' hometown within present-day Tosa, in Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. After Ishimoto graduated from Kōchi Agricultural High School, he returned to the United States in 1939, to study modern agricultural methods. He initially lived with a Japanese family friend in California, but later relocated to the city of Oakland to the home of an American family. He spent summers working as a farmer until 1941, and between September and December of that year, studied at San Jose Junior College (now San Jose City College). In January 1942, he entered the University of California, Berekley, School of Agriculture (now the University of California, Davis), but soon thereafter was sent to a Japanese American internment camp due to Executive Order 9066. In September, he was transferred t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eikoh Hosoe
is a Japanese photographer and filmmaker who emerged in the experimental arts movement of post-World War II Japan. Hosoe is best known for his dark, high contrast, black and white photographs of human bodies. His images are often psychologically charged, exploring subjects such as death, erotic obsession, and irrationality. Some of his photographs reference religion, philosophy and mythology, while others are nearly abstract, such as ''Man and Woman # 24'', from 1960. He was professionally and personally affiliated with the writer Yukio Mishima and experimental artists of the 1960s such as the dancer Tatsumi Hijikata, though his work extends to a diversity of subjects. His photography is not only notable for its artistic influence but for its wider contribution to the reputations of his subjects. Biography At birth Hosoe's name was "Toshihiro" (敏廣); he adopted the name "Eikoh" after World War II to symbolize a new Japan.Art2art Circulating ExhibitionsEikoh Hosoe: ukiyo-e p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tadahiko Hayashi
was a Japanese photographer noted for a wide range of work including documentary (particularly genre scenes of the period immediately after the war) and portraiture. Youth and early career Hayashi was born in Saiwai-chō, Tokuyama (since 2003 part of Shūnan), Yamaguchi (Japan) on 5 March 1918, to a family running a photographic studio (Hayashi Shashin-kan, ). The boy's mother, Ishi Hayashi (, ''Hayashi Ishi'') was an accomplished photographer, particularly of portraits, taught by her father; his father, Shin'ichi Hayashi (, ''Hayashi Shin'ichi'') was a mediocre photographer and a spendthrift; the boy's grandfather forced the parents to divorce and the boy grew up with his mother and surrounded by photography. He did well at school, where he took photographs. Hayashi graduated from school in 1935, and his mother determined that he would apprentice himself to the photographer Shōichi Nakayama (, ''Nakayama Shōichi''). Nakayama was based in Ashiya, Hyōgo, but had a second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroshi Hamaya
was a Japanese photographer active from 1935 to 1999.Mihashi Sumiyo (), "Hamaya Hiroshi", in ''Nihon shashinka jiten'' () / ''328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers'' (Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000; ), p.254. In Japanese only, despite the additional English title. In particular, Hamaya was known for his photographs of rural Japan. Biography Hamaya was born in Shitaya, Tokyo, on 28 March 1915. Between 1942 and 1945 he contributed to ''Front'', the propaganda photo journal of the Tōhō-sha company. Recognition By 1955 one of Hiroshi Hamaya's photographs, a high-angle view of kimono-clad springtime dancers led by his wife, was included by curator Edward Steichen in the world-touring Museum of Modern Art exhibition ''The Family of Man'' that was seen by more than 9 million visitors. In 1956, Hamaya published his acclaimed photobook "Snow Country" (''Yukiguni'') featuring photographs of Japan's frigid northeastern Tōhoku region in winter. In 1960, Hamaya took part in the massive Anpo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Domon
is one of the most renowned Japanese photographers of the 20th century. He is most celebrated as a photojournalist, though he may have been most prolific as a photographer of Buddhist temples and statuary. Biography Domon was born in Sakata, Yamagata Prefecture, and, as a young man, was deeply influenced by the philosophical writings of Tetsuro Watsuji.Watanabe (1998), p. 4. He studied law at Nihon University, but was expelled from the school due to his participation in radical politics. He moved from painting to portrait photography, and obtained a position with Kotaro Miyauchi Photo Studio in 1933. In 1935 he joined Nippon Kōbō to work on its magazine ''Nippon.'' Four years later he moved to Kokusai Bunka Shinkōkai, a national propaganda organization; like Ihei Kimura and many other notable Japanese photographers, he helped the war effort. Both contributed to a propaganda magazine, ''Shashin Shūhō'', during the war. With the end of the war, Domon became independent and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
