Shunji Ōkura (2 May 1937 – 6 February 2015) was a
Japanese
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photographer
A photographer (the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who uses a camera to make photographs.
Duties and types of photograp ...
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Biography
He was the grandson of painter
Gyokudō Kawai. In 1958 he became
Akira Satō's assistant and since 1959 he worked as a freelance photographer.
Ōkura's Emma photobook, published in 1971, a candid story-portrait of his friend and muse, Japanese actress and singer Emma Sugimoto, was awarded the Japan Photograph Association's annual prize.
Ōkura died on 6 February 2025, at the age of 77.
Books
*''Emma, private 2''. Tokyo: Camera Mainichi, 1971
*''Muses'', Tokyo: Seibundo Shinkosha, 1992
*''Kabuki today'', text by Iwao Kamimura. Tokyo, 2001
References
Japanese photographers
1937 births
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2015 deaths