(24 April 1940 – 7 March 2019) was a Japanese

photographer 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. Duties and types of photographe ...

who " ombineda pure appreciation of Japanese customs with a sharp investigative eye".大澤友貴, 「須田一政」, 『フジフイルム・フォトコレクション展　富士フイルム株式会社創立80周年記念コレクション　日本の写真史を飾った写真家の「私の1枚」』 = ''101 Only One Photo Collection'' (Tokyo: Fujifilm, 2016; ), pp. 136/238.

Life and career

Born—as Kazumasa Suda ( ''Suda Kazumasa''「天井桟敷」カメラマン、写真家の須田一政さん死去
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on 24 April 1940, Suda dropped out of

Toyo University is a university with several branches in Japan, including Hakusan, Asaka, Kawagoe, Itakura, and Akabane. Overview The predecessor to Toyo University was , which was founded at Rinsho-in Temple by Enryo Inoue in 1887. Inoue felt that the ...

in 1961 and entered

Tokyo College of Photography The was set up in Nakano, Tokyo in 1958, as Tokyo Photo School (, ''Tōkyō Foto Sukūru''); its current name dates from 1960. During the 1960s, it moved to Hiyoshi (Yokohama), where it has remained. Notable graduates * Tadasuke Akiyama * Tak ...

, from which he graduated in 1962.鈴木佳子, 「須田一政」, 『日本写真家事典』 = ''328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers'' (Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000; , p. 187). Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese. From 1967 to 1971, Suda worked as the cameraman of the theatrical group

Tenjō Sajiki , was a Japanese independent theater troupe co-founded by Shūji Terayama and whose members include Kohei Ando, Kujō Kyōko, Yutaka Higashi, Tadanori Yokoo, and Fumiko Takagi. It was led by Shūji Terayama and active between 1967 and 1983 (unt ...

, under

Shūji Terayama was a Japanese avant-garde poet, dramatist, writer, film director, and photographer. His works range from radio drama, experimental television, underground (''Angura'') theatre, countercultural essays, to Japanese New Wave and "expanded" cinema ...

. He worked as a freelance photographer from 1971. His first photobook, ''Fūshi kaden'', was named after a treatise by Zeami Motokiyo; it won a Photographic Society of Japan newcomer's award in 1976. His fourth, ''Ningen no kioku'', won the

Domon Ken Award The Domon Ken Award (土門拳賞, ''Domon-Ken-shō'') is one of Japan's photographic awards. The award was started in 1981 by the Mainichi Newspapers to mark the 110th birthday of the ''Mainichi Shimbun'', its daily newspaper and main publication ...

in 2014. Suda was a professor at

Osaka University of Arts is a private arts university located in Kanan, Osaka, Kanan, Minamikawachi District, Osaka, Minamikawachi District, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. The university was founded in 1945 as , changing its name to in 1957, and then to in 1964. The univers ...

. He died at the age of 78 on 7 March 2019.

Books by Suda

*''Fūshi kaden'' ().

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16. Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama, 1978. . *''Waga-Tōkyō hyaku'' (). Nikon Salon Books 5. Tokyo: Nikkor Club, 1979. . *''Inu no hana: Kimagure, shashin, sanpo'' (). Tokyo: IBC, 1991. . *''Ningen no kioku'' (). Tokyo: Creo, 1996. . *''Akai hana'' (). Tokyo: Wides, 2000. . Early photographs. *''Suda Issei shashinten "Fūshi kaden"'' (). JCII Photo Salon library 165. Tokyo: JCII, 2005.JCII's page about ''Fūshi kaden''.
/ref> *''Min'yō sanga'' (). Tokyo: Tōseisha, 2007. . *''Kado no tabakoya made no tabi'' (). Tokyo: Place M, 2011. . *''The Work of a Lifetime: Photographs 1968–2006.'' Berlin: Only Photography, 2011. . *''Fūshi kaden'' () = ''Fushikaden''. Tokyo: Akio Nagasawa, 2012. .Akio Nagasawa's page about ''Fushikaden''
as of 8 January 2016. *''Rubber.'' Tokyo: M-Books, 2012. . Photographs of rubber fetishism.Place M's page about ''Rubber''.
/ref> *''Sen-kyūhyaku-nanajūgo Miura Misaki'' () = ''1975 Miuramisaki''. Tokyo: Akio Nagasawa, 2012. .Akio Nagasawa's page about ''1975 Miuramisaki''
as of 8 January 2016. *''Sparrow Island.'' Portland: Nazraeli, 2012. . Photographs of Suzumejima (), an islet () in

Chiba Chiba may refer to: Places China * (), town in Jianli County, Jingzhou, Hubei Japan * Chiba (city), capital of Chiba Prefecture ** Chiba Station, a train station * Chiba Prefecture, a sub-national jurisdiction in the Greater Tokyo Area on ...

. *松之物語 = ''Monogatari of Pines''. Taiwan: 亦安工作室, 2013. . *''Mumei no danjo: Tōkyō 1976–8'' (). Tokyo: Akio Nagasawa, 2013. 48 pages; edition of 50 copies. *''Early Works 1970–1975.'' Tokyo: Akio Nagasawa, 2013. .Akio Nagasawa's page about one of five cover variants of ''Early Works''
as of 8 January 2016. *''Nagi no hira'' () = ''Fragments of Calm.'' Tokyo: Tōseisha, 2013. . *''Tōkyō-kei'' () = ''Tokyokei''. Tokyo: Zen Foto Gallery, 2013. Zen Foto Gallery's page about ''Tokyokei.''
/ref> *''Waga-Tōkyō hyaku'' () = ''Waga Tokyo 100''. Tokyo: Zen Foto Gallery, 2013. .Zen Foto Gallery's page about ''Waga Tokyo 100.''
/ref> *''Osorezan e'' () = ''The Journey to Osorezan''. Tokyo: Zen Foto Gallery, 2013. . Photographs of Osorezan.Zen Foto Gallery's page about ''The Journey to Osorezan.''
/ref> *''Sōmatō no yō ni: Kamagasaki 2000/2014'' () = ''Kamagasaki Magic Lantern.'' Tokyo: Zen Foto Gallery, 2015. . Photographs of

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, Osaka.Zen Foto Gallery's page about ''Kamagasaki Magic Lantern.''
/ref> *''Childhood Days.'' Tokyo: Akio Nagasawa, 2015. .Akio Nagasawa's page about one of two cover variants of ''Childhood Days''
as of 8 January 2016. *''Rei.'' Tokyo: Akio Nagasawa, 2015. . Photographs of mannequins.Akio Nagasawa's page about ''Rei''
as of 1 March 2016. *''Bōsō fūdoki'' (). Kamakura: Super Labo, 2015. . Photographs of Bōsō. *''Suda Issei shashinten "Min'yō sanga"'' (). JCII Photo Salon library 294. Tokyo: JCII, 2016. .JCII's page about ''Min'yō sanga''.
/ref> *''Suddenly.'' Tokyo: Place M, 2016. .Place M's page about ''Suddenly''.
/ref> *''Sein.'' Kamakura: Super Labo, 2017. . *''Kannagara'' () = ''Kan-nagara.'' Tokyo: Place M, 2017. .Place M's page about ''Kannagara''.
/ref> *''Nichijō no danpen'' () = ''Fragment of Everyday Life.'' Kyoto: Seigensha, 2018. . *''Mōmaku chokketsu yubisaki me kamera'' () = ''The Mechanical Retina on My Fingertips.'' Tokyo: Zen Foto Gallery, 2018. . Text in Japanese, English and Chinese.Zen Foto Gallery's page about ''The Mechanical Retina at My Fingertips.''
/ref> *''Gankotoshi.'' Tokyo: Akio Nagasawa, 2019. .Akio Nagasawa's page about ''Gankotoshi''.
/ref> *''Entotsu no aru fūkei'' (). Tokyo: Place M, 2019. .Place M's page about ''Entotsu no aru fūkei''.
/ref> *''Tokyo Modern Pictorial''. Tokyo: Zen Foto Gallery, 2020. .Zen Foto Gallery's page about ''Tokyo Modern Pictorial.''
/ref> *''78''. Paris: Chose Commune, 2020. .Chose Commune's page about ''78''.
/ref> *''New Life.'' Tokyo: Akio Nagasawa, 2020. .Akio Nagasawa's page about ''New Life''.
/ref> *''Eden.'' Tokyo: Place M, 2020. .Place M's page about ''Eden''.
/ref> *''My Japan''. Amsterdam: Fw, 2021. Edited by Anne Ruygt. . With an essay by Frits Gierstberg. *''Mumei no danjo'' ( = ''Anonymous Man and Woman''. Tokyo: Akio Nagasawa, 2021. 100 photographs from the series made in the late 1970s. 160 pages; edition of 600 copies.Akio Nagasawa's page about ''Anonymous Man and Woman''.
/ref> *''Fūshi kaden'' () = ''Exhibition Fushikaden''. Ningbo: Jiazazhi, 2020. 71 photographs on 72 pages. *''Family Diary'' = ''Kazoku nikki'' (). Marseille: Chose Commune, 2021. . With text in French, English and Japanese. *''Kantō fūtan'' () = ''The Sketch of Kanto Area''. Tokyo: Akio Nagasawa, April 2022. Edition of 600 copies. 120 pages. Hardcover. 207mm x 216mm. No ISBN. *''Holy Night.'' Marseille: Chose Commune, 2022. . With text in French, English and Japanese.

Notes

References

General references

* ''Suda Issei'' () / ''Issei Suda.''

Nihon no Shashinka Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

40. Tokyo: Iwanami, 1998. .

External links

Suda's profile at Shashasha
{{DEFAULTSORT:Suda, Issei 1940 births 2019 deaths Japanese photographers People from Tokyo Photography academics Street photographers Tokyo College of Photography alumni