Izu, Shizuoka is a city located in central Izu Peninsula in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 30,678 in 13,390 households, and a population density of 84 persons per km2. The total area of the city was . Geography Izu ...

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Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

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 ...

. As a student Furuya studied architecture and then spent two years at

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 ...

. In 1973 he left his studies and his native Japan and traveled, ending up, according to

Arthur Ollman Arthur Ollman (born March 6, 1947) is an American photographer, author, curator, professor emeritus (San Diego State University (2006—2019), and founding director of The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego. He served as MoPA director from 19 ...

in his book, ''The Model Wife,'' "a man in exile. He wears alienation like an obligation." In Austria where he lived since 1982 he met and married Christine Gössler. From 1984 to 1987 he lived in East Berlin and worked as translator. Christine was to become the primary subject of his photography until her suicide in 1985. His last pictures of her are of her shoes, neatly placed by the window she had just jumped out of, and her body, shot from the same window, on the ground, nine stories below. Ollman, Arthur, The Model Wife, A Bullfinch Press Book/Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1999 p. 178 Today, Furuya lives in

Graz Graz (; sl, Gradec) is the capital city of the Austrian state of Styria and second-largest city in Austria after Vienna. As of 1 January 2021, it had a population of 331,562 (294,236 of whom had principal-residence status). In 2018, the popul ...

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