was a
Japanese photographer
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noted for his photographs of girls and of Europe.
Satō was born on 30 July 1930 in
Tokyo
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. While a student of economics at
Yokohama National University he was an avid reader of ''
Life
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'' and other photographic and fashion magazines at the American CIE library in
Hibiya. He graduated in 1953 and one year later became a freelance photographer, specializing in fashion. From around 1956 he was caught up with new trends in photography, and he participated in the 1957 exhibition ''Jūnin no me'' (, Eyes of ten), subsequently joining the collective "
Vivo".
Satō had a series of one-man shows starting in 1961, alongside publications within the camera magazines. He specialized in black-and-white photographs of girls: their faces in close-up, their bodies surrounded by nature.
In 1963 Satō went to the US and then Europe; he returned to Japan in 1965. Thereafter he made many trips to Europe, particularly Scandinavia and Vienna, primarily photographing in color.
Satō died on 2 April 2002.
Books of Satō's photographs
*''Onna'' (). Tokyo: Chūōkoronsha, 1971.
*''Hokuō sanpo'' (). Alpha Art, 1977.
*''Wīn gensō'' () / ''Wien.'' Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1989. .
*''Sai: Satō Akira Toshima-ku o toru'' (). Tokyo: Toshima-ku, 1991. A booklet.
*''Barokku anatomia'' () / ''Anatomia Barocca.'' Tokyo: Treville, 1994. .
*''Firentse'' () / ''Firenze.'' Tokyo: Kōdansha, 1997. .
*''Onna, soshite, byakuya'' () / ''Eves and White Nights.'' Tokyo: Nikkor Club, 1998. Black-and-white photographs of girls, color photographs of Scandinavia.
* ''Puraha'' () / ''Praha.'' Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 2003. . A posthumous collection of black-and-white photographs.
Other books with works by Satō
*''Nihon shashin no tenkan: 1960 nendai no hyōgen'' () / ''Innovation in Japanese Photography in the 1960s.'' Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1991. Exhibition catalogue, text in Japanese and English. PP.62–67 are devoted to Satō's photographs of girls.
Sources
*''Nihon shashinka jiten'' () / ''328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers.'' Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. .
References
External links
Publisher's page for ''Praha''Publisher's page for ''Baroque Anatomia''
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Japanese photographers
Photographers from Tokyo
1930 births
2002 deaths
Yokohama National University alumni