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Photo City Sagamihara
is a photographic award that has been sponsored annually by the city of Sagamihara is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. , the city has an estimated population of 723,470, with 334,812 households, and a population density of 1,220 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . Sagamihara is the third-most-populous city ... since 2001. There are four kinds of awards: the main prize for professionals (, ''Sagamihara shashinshō''), prizes for newcomer professionals (, ''Sagamihara shashin shinjin shōrei-shō''), one prize for Asian photographers (, ''Sagamihara shashin Ajia-shō'') (in which "Asian" is taken to exclude Japan), and various awards for amateurs (, ''Sagamihara amachua shashin guranpuri''). The winning photographs are displayed in Sagamihara Citizen's Gallery. Notes Sources * ''Sagamihara-shi Sōgō Shashin-sai: Fotoshiti Sagamihara 2007 Kōshiki Gaidobukku'' (). External links *{{in lang, ja}Photo City Sagamihara Awards established in 2001 Japane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sagamihara, Kanagawa
is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. , the city has an estimated population of 723,470, with 334,812 households, and a population density of 1,220 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . Sagamihara is the third-most-populous city in the prefecture, after Yokohama and Kawasaki, and the fifth most populous suburb of the Greater Tokyo Area. Its northern neighbor is Machida, Tokyo, Machida, with which a cross-prefectural merger has been proposed. On April 1, 2010, the city became the 19th Cities designated by government ordinance of Japan, city designated by government ordinance. As a result of this, three wards were established: Midori-ku, Sagamihara, Midori-ku, Chūō-ku, Sagamihara, Chūō-ku and Minami-ku, Sagamihara, Minami-ku. Geography Sagamihara covers a large area of northwestern Kanagawa Prefecture. The main areas of commercial activity in Sagamihara are located near Hashimoto Station (Kanagawa), Hashimoto Station on the JR East Yokohama Line and Keio Saga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryūichi Hirokawa
Ryūichi, Ryuichi or Ryuuichi (written: 隆一, 龍一 or 竜一) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese academic *, Japanese photographer *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese politician *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese film director and editor *, Japanese voice actor *, Japanese journalist *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese singer-songwriter, actor and record producer *, Japanese figure skater *, Japanese voice actor *, Japanese motorcycle racer *, Japanese bobsledder *, Japanese comedian *, Japanese samurai *, Japanese archer *, Japanese judoka and mixed martial artist *, Japanese figure skater *, Japanese golfer *, Japanese singer and musician *, Japanese musician and composer *, Japanese footballer and manager *, Japanese poet, writer and translator *, Japanese politician Fictional characters *Phoenix Wright, known as in the original Japanese versions of the Ace Attorney series * Ryuichi Sakuma, (佐久 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroh Kikai
was a Japanese photographer best known within Japan for four series of monochrome photographs: scenes of buildings in and close to Tokyo, portraits of people in the Asakusa area of Tokyo, and rural and town life in India and Turkey. He pursued each of these for over two decades, and each led to one or more book-length collections. Although previously a respected name in Japanese photography, Kikai was not widely known until 2004, when the first edition of his book ''Persona,'' a collection of Asakusa portraits, won both the Domon Ken Award and Annual Award of the PSJ.Domon Ken Award:Domon Ken–shō no rekishi to zen-jushō-shashinka (, list of award-winners since 1982) (accessed 6 March 2006). PSJ award:. In 2009, the ICP and Steidl copublished ''Asakusa Portraits'' for an international market. Early years Kikai was born in the village of Daigo (now part of Sagae, Yamagata Prefecture) on 18 March 1945 as the seventh and last child (and fifth son) of the family. He had a h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiromi Nagakura
is a Japanese photographer. In 2005 Nagakura's book ''Zabitto ikka, ie o tateru'' won the Kodansha Publishing Culture Award () for a work of photography. , Kodansha. Accessed 7 December 2009. Notes References *''Nihon shashinka jiten'' () / ''328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers.'' Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. . Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese. Japanese photographers 1952 births Living people {{Japan-photographer-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seiichi Furuya
in Izu, Shizuoka is a Japanese photographer. As a student Furuya studied architecture and then spent two years at Tokyo College of Photography. In 1973 he left his studies and his native Japan and traveled, ending up, according to Arthur Ollman in his book, ''The Model Wife,'' "a man in exile. He wears alienation like an obligation." In Austria where he lived since 1982 he met and married Christine Gössler. From 1984 to 1987 he lived in East Berlin and worked as translator. Christine was to become the primary subject of his photography until her suicide in 1985. His last pictures of her are of her shoes, neatly placed by the window she had just jumped out of, and her body, shot from the same window, on the ground, nine stories below. Ollman, Arthur, The Model Wife, A Bullfinch Press Book/Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1999 p. 178 Today, Furuya lives in Graz Graz (; sl, Gradec) is the capital city of the Austrian state of Styria and second-largest city in Austria after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masaru Gotō
is a masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings Masaru can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *勝, "excel" *優, "excel" *大, "large" *将 or 將, "commander" The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana. People with the name * Masaru Akiba (勝), a Japanese football player * Masaru Emoto (勝), a Japanese author * Masaru Furukawa (勝), a Japanese swimmer and olympic champion *, Japanese equestrian * Gagamaru Masaru (勝), a Georgian sumo wrestler *Masaru Hamaguchi (優), Japanese comedian * Masaru Hayami (優), the 28th Governor of the Bank of Japan * Masaru Ibuka (大), a Japanese electronics industrialist * Masaru Ikeda (勝), a Japanese actor and voice actor * Grant Masaru Imahara, an American electronics and radio control expert * Masaru Inada (勝), a Japanese skeleton racer *Inoue Masaru (勝), a Japanese samurai known as the "father of the Japanese railways" *, Japanese field hockey player *Masaru Katori (まさる), a female Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shisei Kuwabara
is a photojournalist best known for his depiction of the effects of mercury poisoning on people in and near Minamata over a period of some forty years. Kuwabara was born — as Fumiaki Kuwabara (, ''Kuwabara Fumiaki'') — in the village of Kibe (now part of Tsuwano), Shimane Prefecture, Japan. In 1960 he graduated from the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Tokyo Photo School (later Tokyo College of Photography). In the same year Kuwabara started work as a freelance photographer. With a letter of introduction from a journalist with '' Shūkan Asahi'' magazine, he visited the director of Minamata Municipal Hospital, Dr Noboru Ōhashi, in July, to ask for permission to photograph. Ōhashi gave him permission for long-term coverage. Kuwabara's photographs of Minamata were shown in his first solo exhibition, ''Minamata-byō'' (Minamata disease), at the Fuji Photo Salon in Tokyo in September 1962. This won the newcomers' award of the Japan Photo Critics Association. Ku ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroshi Watanabe (photographer)
is a California-based Japanese photographer. His books include ''I See Angels Every Day'' and ''Findings.'' Life and work Born in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, in 1951, Watanabe graduated from the Department of Photography of Nihon University in 1975 and moved to Los Angeles where he worked as a production coordinator for Japanese television commercials and later co-founded a Japanese coordination services company. He obtained an MBA from UCLA in 1993, but two years later his earlier interest in photography revived; from 2000 he has worked full-time at photography. After five self-published books, Watanabe's first to be published conventionally was ''I See Angels Every Day,'' monochrome portraits of the patients and other scenes within San Lázaro psychiatric hospital in Quito, Ecuador. This won the 2007 Photo City Sagamihara award for Japanese professional photographers. In 2005, a portfolio of his work was featured in Nueva Luz photographic journal, volume 10#3. In 2007 Watanabe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masataka Nakano
Masataka (written: 昌孝, 雅孝, 雅隆, 正隆, 正孝, 正崇, 正太, 正貴, 正尚, 政孝, 仁崇, 將貴, 昌隆, 真孝 or 真隆) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese voice actor *, Japanese shogi player *, Japanese rebel *, Japanese footballer and manager *, Japanese announcer, singer and writer *, Japanese diplomat *, Japanese actor *, Japanese musician, composer and singer-songwriter *, Japanese rugby union player *, Japanese table tennis player *, Japanese physician *, Japanese baseball player and manager *, Japanese chemist *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese chief executive *, Japanese shogi player *Masataka Takayama (other) Masataka Takayama may refer to: *, Japanese boxer *, Japanese photographer {{hndis, Takayama, Masataka ..., multiple people *, Japanese businessman *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese racing driver *, Japanese baseball player Fictional characters *, a character in the manga series ''Ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eiji Ina
is a Japanese photographer.''Nihon shashinka jiten'' ( / ''328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers'' (Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000; ) Books by Ina *''Yōroppa toire hakubutsushi'' (). Tokyo: Inax, 1988. . Tokyo: Inax, 1990. . Text by Hiroshi Unno () and others. *''Nihon toire hakubutsushi'' (). Tokyo: Inax, 1990. . Text by Kaoru Agi () and others. *''Nihon tairu hakubutsushi'' (). Dai-san kūkan sensho. Tokyo: Inax, 1991. . Text by Kaoru Agi and others. *''Toshi kūkan no kansei'' (). Tokyo: TBS Britannica, 1992. . Ed.. *''Eki dezain to paburikku āto: Ōedo-sen 26-eki shashinsū'' (). Tokyo: Tōkyō Chikatetsu Sekkei, 2000. *''Toshi fūkei no mekanizumu: Ina Eiji Kanemura Osamu no shashin Tenran'' () / ''Inside Out: Mechanism of Cityscapes.'' Ryūdō suru bijutsu, 8. Fukuoka: Fukuoka-shi Bijutsukan, 2003. With Osamu Kanemura is a Japanese photographer A photographer (the Greek language, Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naoki Ishikawa (photographer)
is a Japanese photographer, writer, and mountain climber. Ishikawa first established himself as an accomplished climber, reaching all seven summits by 2001 in his early twenties. In 2001, he began to take photographs seriously and thereafter his ventures as a photographer and writer have intimately linked to his travels and climbs, as he often photographs and writes about his own adventures to various remote landscapes. Ishikawa's analog photographs frequently capture nature at its most extreme and the people that inhabit it, gaining a broad recognition for his ethnographic sensibility and curiosity, informed by his study of antholopology and ethnography at Waseda University. Ishikawa actively participates in the education of photography and anthropology; he has served as a part-time lecturer at the Faculty of Sociology at Rikkyo University and the Photography department of Nihon University and is currently the director of the Photo Archipelago Setouchi school. Early life and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awards Established In 2001
An award, sometimes called a distinction, is something given to a recipient as a token of recognition of excellence in a certain field. When the token is a medal, ribbon or other item designed for wearing, it is known as a decoration. An award may be described by three aspects: 1) who is given 2) what 3) by whom, all varying according to purpose. The recipient is often to a single person, such as a student or athlete, or a representative of a group of people, be it an organisation, a sports team or a whole country. The award item may be a decoration, that is an insignia suitable for wearing, such as a medal, badge, or rosette (award). It can also be a token object such as certificate, diploma, championship belt, trophy, or plaque. The award may also be or be accompanied by a title of honor, as well as an object of direct value such as prize money or a scholarship. Furthermore, an honorable mention is an award given, typically in education, that does not confer the recipient(s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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