is a Japanese photographer who has concentrated on people in cities as subjects.

Life and career

Kodama was born in

Wakayama City Wakayama City Hall is the capital city of Wakayama Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 351,391 in 157066 households and a population density of 1700 persons per km². The total area of the city is ...

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Wakayama Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Wakayama Prefecture has a population of 944,320 () and has a geographic area of . Wakayama Prefecture borders Osaka Prefecture to the north, and Mie Prefecture and Nara Prefecture ...

, Japan) in 1945. She graduated from Kuwasawa Design School in 1967.Michiko Kasahara (), "Kodama Fusako", in ''Nihon shashinka jiten'' () / ''328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers'' (Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000; ), p.133.

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, and Hiroshi Nagai, ''Independent Photographers in Japan, 1976–83'' (Tokyo: Tōkyō Shoseki, 1989; ), p.22. (Although the title of the book is in English, the book is in Japanese only.) She then worked as a photographer for a company named Le Mars (). In 1990 ''Grafication'', a PR magazine of

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, published a series of pieces by Kodama that were later collected into her first photobook, ''Criteria.'' With its depiction of nuclear power plants and other scenes of advanced technology, this book was widely noted as a remarkable document. This was followed by depictions of street life in the metropolis, in the photobook ''Tokyo Kinetic'' and various exhibitions. In 1993, Kodama won the Annual Award of the

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. From April 1993 to March 1995, the magazine ''

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'' ran a series by her, ''Tokyo Cruising.''

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

*''Kuraiteria'' () / ''Criteria.'' *''Tōkyō Kinetikku'' (). Ginza

Nikon Salon is the name given to exhibition spaces and activities run by Nikon in Japan. The Ginza Nikon Salon (in Ginza, Tokyo) opened in January 1968 (with an exhibition of work by Ihei Kimura) to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Nippon Kōgaku (later ren ...

, 1992. *''Tokyo Photographs'' *''Hanazakari no koro: Machi no hitobito'' () *''Tōkyō kōgai'' (). Gallery Art Graph, 1997. *''Kibō no genzai'' ). Osaka

, July 2007.Exhibition notice for ''Kibō no genzai''
Nikon. Accessed 12 March 2013.

Group exhibitions

*''11-nin no Itaria, Nihon no shashinka-ten'' (). Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Tokyo.
, Kuwasawa Design School. Accessed 12 March 2013. *''About Big Cities''.

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(Berlin), 1993. *''Josei-shashinka no manazashi, 1945–1997'' ().

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 ...

, 1998.

Collections

The

possesses twenty prints by Kodama of Tokyo and Tokyo Bay, dating from 1970 to 1977.

Books by Kodama

*''Kuraiteria: Kodama Fusako shashinshū'' () / ''Criteria''. Tokyo: IPC, 1990. . Color photographs, captions and text in both Japanese and English. Japan as a high-tech society. (Eleven of the photographs are of the Fukushima No. 2 nuclear power plant.) *''Sennen-go niwa: Tōkyō: Kodama Fusako shashinshū'' () / ''Tokyo Kinetic''. Tokyo: Gendai Shokan, 1992. . Black and white views of Tokyo; text in Japanese only.

Video

Together with Miho Akioka,

Miyako Ishiuchi , is a Japanese photographer. In 2005, she represented Japan at the Venice Biennale. In March 2014, she became the third Japanese photographer, following Hiroshi Hamaya and Hiroshi Sugimoto, to received the Hasselblad Foundation International Aw ...

, Yuri Nagahara, Hiroko Matsuo and

Michiko Matsumoto is a Japanese photographer. Biography Michiko Matsumoto was born in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, in 1950, and in 1974 graduated from Hosei University (Tokyo). She is currently based in Tokyo. The artist's early work of the 1980s included sev ...

, Kodama is interviewed within the video ''6 works and 6 artists.''Notice about the video
, the Third Gallery Aya. Accessed 12 March 2013.

References

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