Kishin Shinoyama
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Kishin Shinoyama (篠山 紀信 Shinoyama Kishin?, b. Shinjuku, Tokyo, 3 December 1940) is a Japanese photographer.
Shinoyama graduated from Nihon University. He worked with the Light Publicity agency while still a student, and freelanced after graduation.
Shinoyama has put out a large number of books of photographs of girls, dressed, mostly undressed, and nude.
He is married to Saori Minami and their son is actor Akinobu Shinoyama.
[edit] Books
[edit] Books devoted to Shinoyama's works
This list is very incomplete.
- (Japanese) Kishin no teitaku: Sā Jon Sōn Bijutsukan (貴紳の邸宅:サー・ジョン・ソーン美術館?) / Sir John Soane's Museum. Tokyo: Rokuyōsha, 1989. ISBN 9784897370118. Text by Arata Isozaki. A detailed study of Sir John Soane's Museum (London).
- Santa Fe. Tokyo: Asahi Shuppansha, 1991. ISBN 4255910464. Rie Miyazawa, nude. (See Santa Fe.)
- (English) The Painter's House: Balthus at the Grand Chalet. Te Neues, 2000. ISBN 978-3823854722. Photographs of the extraordinarily large house of the Balthus family, and Balthus himself, his wife and their daughter.
- Kissin' My Puppy. Tokyo: Rasukaru, 2005. ISBN 978-4902388053. Japan's starlets (アイドルタレント aidoru tarento?) and their dogs. The minimal text is in Japanese.
[edit] Other books showing Shinoyama's works
- (Japanese) Nihon nūdo meisakushū (日本ヌード名作集, Japanese nudes). Camera Mainichi bessatsu. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1982. Pp.24–25, 222–27 show nudes by Shinoyama.
- Nihon shashin no tenkan: 1960 nendai no hyōgen (日本写真の転換:1960時代の表現) / Innovation in Japanese Photography in the 1960s. Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1991. Exhibition catalogue, text in Japanese and English. Pp.124–29 show nudes by Shinoyama.
==Works[vague]==
- 135 Women
- Girls of Okinawa
- The Geisha Series
- Santa Fe/Rie Miyazawa
- Yukio Mishima's House
- Ningen Kankei
- Double Fantasy - cover photography of John Lennon and Yoko Ono
[edit] Prizes and awards
- Most Promising Young Photographer Prize (日本批評家協会新人賞 Nihon Hihyōka Kyōkai Shinjinshō?) in 1966.
- Mainichi Art Prize (毎日芸術賞 Mainichi Geijutsushō?) in 1980.
- Golden Eye Award in 1998.
[edit] External links
- Official Website(Japanese)
- Kishin Shinoyama and Manuel Legris Photo Sessions at the Paris Opera House: Fairly informative advertisement for an exhibition held in 2000.
- Photography Now: three extremely brief exhibition notices.