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Japan Professional Photographers Society
The is a Tokyo-based organization of photographers founded in 1950. Its logo reads “JPS”. It was formed from the combination of three earlier organizations, none more than two years old: Seinen Hōdō Shashin Kenkyūkai (青年報道写真研究会), Seinen Shashinka Kyōkai (青年写真家協会, Young Photographers' Association), and Shashinka Shūdan (写真家集団, Photographers' Group), The organization exists to maintain professional standards and to protect the interests of professional photographers. It also sponsors exhibitions of interest to the general public, and, since 2005, the Younosuke Natori Photography Award for photographers under 30. Its current President (2007) is Takeyoshi Tanuma. Notable members *Takashi Amano *Ihei Kimura, former chair of the society *Susumu Matsushima (honorary) *Toyoko Tokiwa (1928 – 24 December 2019) was a Japanese photographer best known for her 1957 book of text and photographs ''Kiken na Adabana'' (), and particularly f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yōnosuke Natori
was a Japanese photographer and editor. Biography Born in Tokyo on 3 September 1910, Natori studied at Keio normal school but upon graduation went with his mother to Munich, where he studied at a school of arts and crafts. In 1930 he married while in Germany he married Erna Mecklenburg, a craft designer whom he would collaborate with throughout his career. He became interested in photography and in 1931 obtained a Leica. After selling his wife Erna's photograph of the aftermath of the Munich Stadtmuseum burning to a local newspaper, in 1931 he got a contract to work as a photographer for Ullstein, which in 1933 sent him to Manchuria to cover the Mukden Incident. After immediate hostilities there had ended, Natori went to Japan and set up the first Nihon Kōbō. When that collapsed he set up the second, working on its magazine ''Nippon.'' He went to Berlin for the 1936 Olympics, and thence went directly to the US. Some of the photographs he took while in the US were publis ... [...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] |
Takashi Amano (aquarist)
was a professional track cyclist, photographer, designer, and aquarist. His interest in aquaria led him to create the Japanese company Aqua Design Amano. Amano was the author of ''Nature Aquarium World'' ( TFH Publications, 1994), a three-book series on aquascaping and freshwater aquarium plants and fish. He has also published the book ''Aquarium Plant Paradise'' (TFH Publications, 1997). A species of freshwater shrimp is named the "Amano shrimp" or "Yamato shrimp" (''Caridina multidentata''; previously ''Caridina japonica'') after him. After discovering this species' ability to eat large quantities of algae, Amano asked a local distributor to special order several thousand of them. They have since become a staple in the freshwater planted aquarium hobby. He also developed a line of aquarium components that are known as Aqua Design Amano (ADA). "Nature Aquarium", his article series, appeared in monthly magazines in ''Practical Fishkeeping'' in the UK, and ''Tropical Fish ... [...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] |
Susumu Matsushima
__NOTOC__ was a Japanese photographer famous for portraits of women, fashion photography, and nudes. Matsushima was born on 5 January 1913 in Ushigome, Tokyo. He studied at Tōkyō Kōtō Kōgei Gakkō (, later incorporated within Chiba University), where a fellow-student was Gen Ōtsuka. On graduating in 1933, he joined Jiji Shinpō-sha, but soon quit and moved to Nikkatsu, where he worked as a photographer, focusing especially on portraits of women, which he also submitted to '' Photo Times'' and other photographic magazines. After the war Matsushima went freelance, working on portraits of women, fashion, and the like. In 1948 he created the group Shashinka Shūdan () with Fujio Matsugi, Sankichi Ozaki and others. He continued to work prolifically after this. Matsushima was an honorary member of the Japan Professional Photographers Society and the Japan Photographers Association Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toyoko Tokiwa
(1928 – 24 December 2019) was a Japanese photographer best known for her 1957 book of text and photographs ''Kiken na Adabana'' (), and particularly for its portrayal of the red-light district of post-occupation Yokohama, with US servicemen.Tomoe Moriyama (), "Tokiwa Toyoko", ''Nihon Shashinka Jiten'' () / ''328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers'' (Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000; ), p.221. Despite the English-language alternative title, in English only. Life and career Toyoko Tokiwa () was born in Yokohama in 1928.As stated in an ''Asahi Shinbun'' article cited above; additionally, the ''Kanagawa Shinbun'' Kanaroko article cited above states that she was 91 at the time of her death. However, Moriyama (''Nihon shashinka jiten'') says 15 January 1930. A birth year of 1930 is widely stated, even in at least one academic paper devoted to Tokiwa (). , pp.341–342 within (Tokyo: Nichigai Associates, 2005; ), which might be expected to be authoritative, is silent about the year, let alone d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arts Organizations Established In 1950
The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both highly dynamic and a characteristically constant feature of human life, they have developed into innovative, stylized and sometimes intricate forms. This is often achieved through sustained and deliberate study, training and/or theorizing within a particular tradition, across generations and even between civilizations. The arts are a vehicle through which human beings cultivate distinct social, cultural and individual identities, while transmitting values, impressions, judgments, ideas, visions, spiritual meanings, patterns of life and experiences across time and space. Prominent examples of the arts include: * visual arts (including architecture, ceramics, drawing, filmmaking, painting, photography, and sculpting), * literary arts (includin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Photography Organizations
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] |
