(16 July 1936 – 12 January 2015)
Obituary: Akira Kinoshita
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A photographer (the Greek language, Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who makes photographs.
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who specialized in photographing musicians.Nagano Nagano may refer to:
Places
* Nagano Prefecture, a prefecture in Japan
** Nagano (city), the capital city of the same prefecture
*** Nagano 1998, the 1998 Winter Olympics
*** Nagano Olympic Stadium, a baseball stadium in Nagano
*** Nagano Universi ...
, on 16 July 1936. He graduated from Nihon Fukushi University
is a private university with its main campus at Mihama, Aichi, and other campuses at Nagoya and Handa, also in Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is ...
, and then worked for '' Chūnichi Shinbun'' and Hakuhodo
is a Japanese advertising and public relations company. It is headquartered at Akasaka Biz Tower in Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo.
History
Hakuhodo is one of the oldest advertising agencies in Japan and was founded by Hironao Seki at Nihonbashi-Hon ...
. From the 1970s, he has published collections of photographs of musicians and other music-related photobooks.[Jinbo Kyōko (), "Kinoshita Akira", in ''Nihon shashinka jiten'' () / ''328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers'' (Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000; ), p.109. Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese.]
Kinoshita's work is held in the permanent collection of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
The is an art museum concentrating on photography.
As the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, it was founded by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and is in Meguro-ku, a short walk from Ebisu station in southwest Tokyo. The museum also ...
.
Books
*World of Seiji Ozawa, 1981 (Kodansha)
*1984 Musician of the World (3 volumes) (Shogakukan)
*1992: maestro Herbert von Karajan] (Asahi Shimbun)
*Watanabe Akira 雄 996
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Events
By place
Japan
* February - Chotoku Incident: Fujiwara no Korechika and Takaie shoot an arrow at Retired Em ...
(Ongaku)
*Asahina Takashi ~ 2002's] art is the best longevity (Shinchosha)
* 004Carlos Kleiber (Alpha Beta)
* 005Taking Takemitsu (Shogakukan)
*Maestro 006(Shogakukan)
*Journey to the Verdi (実業之日本社)
*''Ishi. Portrait with a Stone''. Tokyo: Asukashinsa Publishing Co., 2009.
Major exhibitions
*In 1971 "On Stage ~ Sound Landscape" (Ginza Nikon Salon)
*1976 "Musician of the World" (Wako Hall)
*1995 "sound picture" (Kanagawa Prefectural Hall)
*1996 "The perfection of sound" (Suwa City Museum of Art)
*1998 "A Musical Journey in Vienna" (Mitsukoshi Nihonbashi)
*In 1999 "Opera House" (Wako Hall)
*2002 "master musicians in the world ~ 100" (Matsumoto City Museum of Art)
*2002 "Musician of the 20th century" (Aichi Arts Center)
*2005 "Masters of the World (Maestro) ~ 101" (Muza Kawasaki Symphony Hall)
*2006 "photo exhibition, Akira Kinoshita musicians in the world" (Museum Chino, Nagano Prefecture)
*"Journey to the Verdi" (Forest Opera Tokyo) (Tokyo Metropolitan Festival Hall Foyer)
*Akira Kinoshita Photo Exhibition "master musician in the world ~" (signed autograph photo exhibition) (Ginza Wako Hall)
References
1936 births
2015 deaths
Japanese photographers
People from Nagano Prefecture
Portrait photographers
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