was a
Japanese
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photographer noted for a strikingly modern approach to pictorialism.
He was born in
Ginza on 16 January 1892, as , son of , the head of Apothecary Shiseidō (which in 1927 would be incorporated as
Shiseidō
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) and . His three eldest brothers
[By conventional count, his ''two'' eldest brothers: One died so young that he was not counted when Shinzō was given a name indicating that he was the third.] died young, but another older brother,
Shinzō, would also win great fame as a photographer and the last, Nobuyoshi (信義, b.1897) would win some fame too, under the name .
Fukuhara studied French at
Keio University (Tokyo) from 1911 to 1917. His photographic activities were amateur but rigorous; his photographs employed both shallow focus and rather incongruous juxtapositions to great effect. Half of a photograph by Fukuhara might be taken up by corrugated metal fencing.
Fukuhara died on 29 September 1946 in
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.
Notes
Books showing Fukuhara's works
* ''Fukuhara Shinzō, Fukuhara Rosō: Hikari to sono kaichō'' (福原信三 福原路草：光とその諧調, Shinzō Fukuhara, Rosō Fukuhara: Light and its harmony). Nikon Salon Books 3. Tokyo: Nikkor Club, 1977.
* ''Fukuhara Shinzō to Fukuhara Rosō'' (福原信三と福原路草, Shinzō Fukuhara and Rosō Fukuhara). Nihon no Shashinka 3. Tokyo: Iwanami, 1997. .
*''Hikari no shijō: Fukuhara Shinzō no sekai'' (光の詩情：福原信三の世界) / ''The World of Shinzo Fukuhara: Poetics of Light.'' Tokyo: Shiseido Corporate Culture Department, 1994.
*''Hikari to sono kaichō: Fukuhara Shinzō, Fukuhara Rosō: 1913-nen – 1941-nen'' (光とその諧調：福原信三・福原路草：1913年–1941年) / ''The Light with Its Harmony: Shinzo Fukuhara / Roso Fukuhara: Photographs 1913–1941.'' Tokyo: Watari-um, 1992. .
*
Iizawa, Kohtaro, and Hervé Chandès. ''Shinzo et Roso Fukuhara''. Paris: Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, 1994. .
Other sources
* Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, editor. . Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000.
External links
Shinzō and Rosō Fukuharaat Shiseido. A large collection of their photographs, and some other materials.
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1892 births
1946 deaths
Japanese photographers
Photographers from Tokyo