is a Japanese photographer of the

Kii Peninsula The is the largest peninsula on the island of Honshū in Japan and is located within the Kansai region. It is named after the ancient Kii Province. The peninsula has long been a sacred place in Buddhism, Shinto, and Shugendo, and many people wou ...

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, and other subjects.

Life and career

Dodo was born in Osaka in 1947.Potted biography
for the Nara International Film Festival, 2010. Accessed 2010-08-24. (A
English-language version
is hard to understand.) He graduated in fine arts from

Kyushu Sangyo University was founded in 1960 in Fukuoka City, and currently has twenty departments and six graduate schools. It is a private university. Undergraduate Faculties and departments *Faculty of Economics **Department of Economics *Faculty of Commerce **Depa ...

in 1970, and started teaching at Tōkyō Shashin Senmon Gakkō (now Visual Arts College Tokyo).Biography, ''Osaka'', p. 186. Two years later he started work as a teacher of photography at Ōsaka Shashin Senmon Gakkō; in 1998 he was made head of the school, by that time renamed Visual Arts College Osaka. Dodo was present when the film director

Naomi Kawase is a Japanese film director. She was also known as , with her former husband's surname. Many of her works have been documentaries, including ''Embracing'', about her search for the father who abandoned her as a child, and ''Katatsumori'', about ...

, who had first been a student of his and was later teaching at Visual Arts Senmon Gakkō, had her first baby on 24 April 2004, in

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. This was filmed as ''Tarachime'' () and Dodo photographed the event; the photographs were exhibited in Nara,

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, and

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, and published as ''Haha'' (). Dodo's book of large-format black-and-white photographs ''A Radiant Land: Kii Peninsula'' won the PSJ's Annual Award for 1995; his later collection of large-format colour photographs of the peninsula, ''A Radiant Land with Thousands of Years,'' was exhibited in Nara City Museum of Photography in 2000. The latter work also won him the

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in 1999.Ina Nobuo Award page
for 1999. Nikon. Accessed 2010-08-24. Dodo has said that his major influences were

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, especially his

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series "Pencil of the Sun", and

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, for the way in which Takanashi's concentration on Tokyo showed Dodo his own possibilities in Osaka.Interview with Dodo, ''Faces of Humanity 93/94,'' pp. 166–69. Among the photographers he admires are

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and William Klein.

Awards

, 1999. *Hidano Kazuemon Award ( Higashikawa Awards), 2011.

Exhibitions by Dodo

*1978 "Ōsaka, Tennōji".

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(Ginza, Osaka).Shunji Dodo / Naomi Kawase:
". Gallery Out of Place. Accessed 2010-08-24. *1985 "Shinsekai: Mukashi mo ima mo". Nikon Salon (Ginza, Osaka). *1992 "Shujō yūraku, Bankoku". Nikon Salon (Ginza, Osaka). *1995–96 "Rakudo Kii hantō". Konica Plaza (

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, Osaka, Sapporo). *1999 "Sennen rakudo". Nikon Salon (Ginza, Osaka). *2000 "Sennen rakudo Kii hantō". Nara City Museum of Photography. *2002 ".com New York". Nikon Salon (Shinjuku). *2004 "Sharasōju". Visual Arts Gallery. *2006 "Haha". Gallery Out of Place (

). *2007 "Ha ha". Galerie Focale (

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). *2007 "Haha + vegetable". Gallery Bauhaus (Tokyo). *2007 "Ha ha". Focale Galerie (

). *2010 "Osaka". Nikon Salon (Ginza and Osaka). *2010 "Kamagasaki/Shinsekai: Life in the shadow of the economic miracle". Zen Foto Gallery (

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). Photographs of

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and Kamagasaki (both in Osaka) by Dodo and

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. *2010 "Osaka". Tokio Out of Place (Minami

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, Tokyo).

Film, video

*Coproducer, '' The Mourning Forest'' (2007). *Actor, ''Tsunagari-yuku mono'' () / ''Things Passed Down'' (dir. Naomi Kawase, 2009). Dodo plays the gruff photographer father in this long commercial for

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.Diary entries
by Kawase, 27 and 30 April 2009. Accessed 2010-08-25.

Publications by Dodo

* ''Chihei'' () / ''Horizon.'' Issues 1–10. 1971–77.Hard to find in library catalogues, but listed in for example the biography in ''Osaka,'' p. 186. * ''Shinsekai: Mukashi mo ima mo'' (). Osaka: Chōseisha, 1986. Black-and-white photographs of

, Osaka. * ''Horizon'', 1993. A joint work. * ''Shashin "Ningen no machi" 93/94'' () / '' Faces of Humanity 93/94.'' Edited by Shunji Dodo, George Hashiguchi, and Naomi Yanagimoto. Published by the editors (at their respective addresses), 1994. Much of the text is in English as well as Japanese. On pp. 156–65 Dodo presents his own series, "Kaosu 1969–1970" (), photographs of people from US military bases and of protests against these. * ''Rakudo: Kii hantō'' () / ''A Radiant Land: Kii Peninsula.'' Osaka: Brain Center, 1995. . Large-format black-and-white photographs of the

. * ''Sennen rakudo'' () / ''A Radiant Land with Thousands of Years.'' Osaka: Brain Center, 2000. . Large-format colour photographs of the

. * ''Sharasōju'' () / ''Shara.'' Nara: Sento/Kumie, 2003. With

; black-and-white photographs of the making of, and production notes for, Kawase's film '' Shara.'' * ''Haha'' (). Nara: Gallery Out of Place, 2006. * ''Saien + sakura'' () / ''A Vegetable Garden, Sakura.'' Osaka: Vacuum Press, 2009. . Black-and-white photographs of the products of Dodo's vegetable garden, and of cherry blossoms. * ''Ōsaka'' ( / ''Osaka.'' Kyoto: Seigensha, 2010. . Large-format black-and-white photographs of Osaka. * ''Haruka na chihei'' ( / ''Horizon far and away 1968–1977.'' Tokyo: Akaakasha, 2012. . Numerous series of Dodo's older photographs. * ''Nihonkai'' ( / ''Japan Sea.'' Tokyo: Akaakasha, 2014. . Photographs of the

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coastal area. * ''Sorahoderi no machi'' ( / ''A City Aglow.'' Tokyo: Case, 2019. .

Notes

External links

First
of a series of five photographs from ''Haha.''
Publisher's page
for ''Osaka,'' with sample photographs.

for ''Saien + sakura,'' with (tiny) sample photographs.
Transcript
of a short

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program about Dodo, broadcast on 21 May 2010. {{DEFAULTSORT:Dodo, Shunji Japanese photographers Japanese academics Photographers from Osaka Living people 1947 births