is a Japanese

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known for his photographs of jazz musicians and of Africa. Naitoh was born in

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in 1941. He graduated from a photography course at in 1964. In 1970 he set up his own company, Photohouse OM. From an early age he became interested in jazz and photography, and he began photographing jazz musicians in performance in his early 20s. In 1970, he published a photo book on the trumpet player

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. He travelled widely in Africa, Asia and America, leading to a number of unusual and arresting images: ''Zebra,'' a collection of his photographs of

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s, was published in 1988, and other works have used design themes from zebras, often in

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s. More recently he has moved into photographing lotuses. Outside Japan, Naitoh is perhaps best known for his photographs of

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, which include those used on the sleeves of the 1976 albums ''

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'' and '' Agharta,'' and a limited edition CD release of '' Black Beauty: Live at the Fillmore West.'' Naitoh has also produced recordings. Naitoh's works are held in the permanent collections of the

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and Kawasaki City Museum.

Exhibits/Shows

*"Portrait of New Orleans",

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, Ikebukuro, 1972. *Exhibit in Gallery Min, Tokyo, May 18 - June 13, 1991. Catalogue: ''Tadayuki Naito: Sakura'' (Tokyo, 1991). *In 2002-2003, The Japan Foundation and The New York Foundation for the Arts financed ''Mother/Child'', a multi-media performance featuring choreography, video, photography and stage art. Naitō was one of the artists featured. *From May to July 2007 there was a retrospective of his work in the Canon Open Gallery in

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, Tokyo.Page on this
in Naitoh's site

hosted by Canon Marketing Japan.

Book publications

*''Hino Terumasa no sekai'' () / ''Alone alone alone.'' Tokyo: Sankei Shinbunsha, 1970. (Japanese title means "The world of

".) *''Nabesan: Tokyo-Dar es Salaam-New York.'' Tokyo: Tairyūsha, 1977. (Title is in roman letters.) * ''Afurika no tabi'' (, African Journey). Tokyo: Photohouse OM, 1980. Black and white photographs of Africa: landscapes, animals, people. Minimal text. *''Chikyū fūzoku mandara'' (). Kobe: Kobe Shinbun Sōgō Shuppan Sentā, 1981. *''Afurika no uta'' () / ''The Song of Africa.'' Tokyo: Shōbunsha, 1982. . Photographs, mostly in color, of Africa. Despite the English title, the text is in Japanese only. *''Zebra.'' Tokyo: Jōhō Sentā, 1988. . (Title in roman letters.) Photographs of zebras, zebra motifs, collages of zebra motifs, etc. Text in Japanese and English. *''Sakura-Cosm.'' Tokyo: Switch Shoseki Shuppanbu, 1990. . (Title is in roman letters.) Text in Japanese and English. *''Shinkuro baibusu'' () / ''Synchro Vibes.'' Tokyo: JICC Shuppankyoku, 1991. . Essays on photography. *''Waga kokoro no Afurika'' (). With

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. Tokyo: Chikuma Shobō, 1992. *''Uchū no katachi, Nihon no niwa'' (). Tokyo: Sekai Bunkasha, 1998. . (Title means "Japanese gardens in the presence of the cosmos".) *''Iro wa koto no ha'' () / ''Feel the Colors.'' Tokyo: Kentōsha, 2003. . *''Burū rōtasu'' (). Tokyo: Hyōgensha, 2005. . (Title means "Blue lotus".)

Compact discs

*''Masailand'' (1981)The source for these is Naitoh's CV withi
an exhibition announcement
hosted by Canon. *''Dry and Wet'' (1981) *''Night Trip'' (1981) *''Timeless'' (1981) *''

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'' (

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) (1989) ''Directstep'' (Herbie Hancock) (1979)

Video/multimedia productions

*''Nō no shima'' (脳の縞, 1993) *''Zebra Fantasy'' (1996) *''The Song of Africa'' (1997) *''Kyō no niwa'' (京の庭, 1998) *''Mandala Cosmology'' (2000) *''Zebra'' (2001)

Notes

References

*Avella, Natalie. ''Graphic Japan: From Woodblock and Zen to Manga and Kawaii'' Rotovision, 2004. P. 52. * ''Nihon shashinka jiten'' (日本写真家事典) / ''328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers.'' Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. . Despite the alternative English title, in Japanese only.

External links

Naitoh's site
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with photographs

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