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Toshio Fukada
was a Japanese photographer. Fukada died in 2009. References Further reading *''Kaku: Hangenki'' (核：半減期) ''The Half Life of Awareness: Photographs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.'' Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1995. Exhibition catalogue; text in Japanese and English. Photographers: Ken Domon, Toshio Fukada, Kikujirō Fukushima, Shigeo Hayashi, Kenji Ishiguro, Shunkichi Kikuchi, Mitsugi Kishida, Yoshito Matsushige, Eiichi Matsumoto, Shōmei Tōmatsu, Hiromi Tsuchida and Yōsuke Yamahata was a Japanese photographer best known for extensively photographing Nagasaki the day after it was bombed. Biography Yamahata was born in Singapore on 6 August 1917; his father, Shōgyoku Yamahata (, later to become known as a photographer) ...). 1928 births 2009 deaths Japanese photographers Place of birth missing {{Japan-photographer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Domon
was a celebrated Japanese photographer known for his work as a photojournalist and as a photographer of Buddhist temples and statuary. Domon, who began his career in the 1930s contributing photo reportages to magazines that supported the increasingly militaristic Japanese state and its imperial policies, later criticized propaganda photography. His subsequent termination from the government agency he worked for spurred his career as a freelance photographer. As photojournalists grappled with how to depict the new social reality of the post-WWII period, Domon forged the realistic photography movement (''Riarizumu Shashin Undō''). He embraced the idea of snapshot photography (''sunappu''), in which images could be captured with "absolute unstagedness". Domon documented the aftermath of the war, focusing on society and the lives of ordinary people. He received national acclaim for his portraits of children in exploitative labor conditions and Hiroshima bomb survivors ('' hibakusha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kikujirō Fukushima
was a Japanese photographer and journalist, author of the book ''Postwar Japan that was not photographed: From Hiroshima to Fukushima''. Early life and military service Born in Kudamatsu-shi Yamaguchi Prefecture as the youngest of four brothers, his father was the head of a fisherman's union. Drafted in the spring of 1944 he worked in logistics, delivering munitions to troops by horseback in the 10th East Hiroshima Battalion. He was discharged after incurring a bone fracture from the kick of a horse during training. While under treatment his unit was torpedoed off the coast of Okinawa. He was re-drafted in spring 1945 and ordered to charge at American tanks with depth charges in preparation for Operation Downfall. He would see the end of the war in a foxhole off the coast of Kagoshima Prefecture. Career After the war Fukushima would work repairing wristwatches and developing photographs, and later as a district welfare officer. Documenting the victims of the Hiroshima bombin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shigeo Hayashi
was a Japanese photographer. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, editor. . Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. After three years of Army service he began his career as a photographer with the Japanese propaganda magazine ''FRONT'', in 1943. In September 1945 he was one of two photographers assigned by the ''Special Committee for the Investigation of A-bomb Damage'' to document the aftermath of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively, during World War II. The aerial bombings killed between 150,000 and 246,000 people, most of whom were civili .... In subsequent decades he worked as a commercial photographer. He died in 2002 at the age of 84. References Japanese photographers 1918 births 2002 deaths Imperial Japanese Army soldiers {{Japan-photographer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenji Ishiguro
is a Japanese 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 .... Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, editor. . Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. Publications *''Hiroshima 1965.'' 1970. **Akio Nagasawa, 2018. Edition of 900 copies. References 1935 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Japanese photographers 20th-century Japanese artists 21st-century Japanese photographers 21st-century Japanese artists {{Japan-photographer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shunkichi Kikuchi
was a Japanese photographer best known for his documentation of Hiroshima and Tokyo immediately after the war. Kikuchi was born in Hanamaki, Iwate on 1 May 1916. After graduating from the Oriental School of Photography, Kikuchi was employed in the Photography Division of Tokyo Kōgeisha and began his career as a news photographer. In 1941 he worked in the photography division of Tōhōsha, a company established by Sōzō Okada and in 1942 was a member of the photographic staff of the magazine ''Front.'' His work took him to China, "Manchukuo" and the Philippines. In 1945, the Ministry of Education organized the "Science Council of Japan Special Committee on the Damage Caused by the Atomic Bomb, Hiroshima/Nagasaki Survey Group", and commissioned Nippon Eiga-sha as its Documentary Film Division. Kikuchi served as a still photographer attached to the division and was hired to shoot for medical purposes. He recorded post-atomic bomb Hiroshima from 30 September to 22 October 1945. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitsugi Kishida
was a Japanese 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 .... Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, editor. . Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. Selected photos File:View of Hiroshima City seen from the Hondōri street, Hiroshima City - 7 August 1945 - Kishida Mitsugi.png, View of Hiroshima City seen from the Hondōri street, Hiroshima City on 7 August 1945 File:The center part of the Hondōri street Hiroshima City scattered corpses - 7 August 1945 - Kishida Mitsugi.png, The central part of the Hondōri street Hiroshima City scattered corpses on 7 August 1945 File:Victims receiving relief works in front of Hiroshima Credit Union HQ - 3 Choh-me Yokogawa-chō Hiroshima City - 7 August 1945 - Kishida Mitsugi.png, Victims receiving relief works in front of Hiroshima Credi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshito Matsushige
was a Japanese photojournalist who survived the dropping of the atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 and took five photographs on the day of the bombing in Hiroshima, the only photographs taken that day within Hiroshima that are known. Matsushige was born in Kure, Hiroshima in 1913. He took a job at a newspaper after finishing school and in 1943 entered the photography section of the newspaper '' Chugoku Shimbun''. Matsushige was at home 2.7 km south of the hypocentre at the time of the explosion. He was not seriously injured, and determined to go to the city centre. A fire forced him back to Miyuki bridge, where the scene of desperate and dying people prevented him from using his camera for twenty minutes, when he took two frames at about 11:00. He tried again later that day but was too nauseated to take more than three more frames. The first two frames are of people who escaped serious injury next to Miyuki bridge; the second of these is taken close ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eiichi Matsumoto
was a Japanese photographer. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, editor. . Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. During World War II he worked as a photojournalist for the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, covering the firebombing of several Japanese cities. Following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki , officially , is the capital and the largest Cities of Japan, city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan. Founded by the Portuguese, the port of Portuguese_Nagasaki, Nagasaki became the sole Nanban trade, port used for tr ..., he was sent to photograph the aftermath. References Japanese photographers 1915 births 2004 deaths Laureates of the Imperial Prize {{Japan-photographer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shōmei Tōmatsu
was a Japanese photographer. He is known primarily for his images that depict the impact of World War II on Japan and the subsequent occupation of U.S. forces. As one of the leading postwar photographers, Tōmatsu is attributed with influencing the younger generations of photographers including those associated with the magazine Provoke (Takuma Nakahira and Daido Moriyama). Biography Youth Tōmatsu was born in Nagoya in 1930. As an adolescent during World War II, he was mobilized to support Japan's war effort. Like many Japanese students his age, he was sent to work at a steel factory and underwent incessant conditioning intended to instill fear and hatred towards the British and Americans. Once the war ended and Allied troops took over numerous Japanese cities, Tōmatsu interacted with Americans firsthand and found that his preconceptions of them were not entirely salient. At the time Tōmatsu's contempt for the violence and crimes committed by these soldiers was complicated by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiromi Tsuchida
is a Japanese photographer. His creative photo career is over 40 years long. Tsuchida has produced several collections of photographs of the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. He has produced many photo books such as ''Zokushin'', ''Counting Grains of Sand'', ''New Counting Grains of Sand'' and ''The Berlin Wall''. There is also a retrospective of his life's work titled, ''Hiromi Tsuchida's Japan''. Tsuchida has received the Nobuo Ina Award and the Ken Domon Award. Life and work Tsuchida was born in 1939 in Fukui Prefecture. He graduated from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Fukui. In 1971, he began his career as a photographer and won the 8th Annual Taiyo Magazine Award. In 1976, he turned his focus on Japanese folk nature and published ''Zokushin''. In 1978 he received the Nobuo Ina Award for his work about Hiroshima and the aftermath of the atomic bomb. He continued to document that theme with ''Hiroshima Monument'' and ''Hiroshima Collection''. In 1995 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yōsuke Yamahata
was a Japanese photographer best known for extensively photographing Nagasaki the day after it was bombed. Biography Yamahata was born in Singapore on 6 August 1917; his father, Shōgyoku Yamahata (, later to become known as a photographer) had a job there related to photography.Hirakata and the ''Biographic Dictionary'' state that Yamahata's original given name was , but do not specify its reading. A likely reading is "Keiichi". He went to Tokyo in 1925 and eventually started at Hosei University (Tokyo) but dropped out in 1936 to work in G. T. Sun (, ''Jīchīsan Shōkai,'' aka Graphic Times Sun), a photographic company run by his father. (He would become its president in 1947.) From 1940, Yamahata worked as a military photographer in China, Taiwan, French Indochina and Singapore and elsewhere in Asia outside Japan; he returned to Japan in 1942. Photography of immediate after-effects the Nagasaki atomic bombing In July 1945 Yamahata was requisitioned for a military jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1928 Births
Events January * January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly demonstrating that DNA is the genetic material. * January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhanov, Joseph Stalin's personal secretary, crosses the border to Iran to defect from the Soviet Union. * January 17 – The OGPU arrests Leon Trotsky in Moscow; he assumes a status of passive resistance and is exiled with his family. * January 26 – The volcanic island Anak Krakatau appears. February * February – The Ford River Rouge Complex at Dearborn, Michigan, an automobile plant begun in 1917, is completed as the world's largest integrated factory. * February 8 – Scottish-born inventor John Logie Baird broadcasts a transatlantic television signal from London to Hartsdale, New York. * February 11 – February 19, 19 – The 1928 Winter Olympics are held in St. Moritz, Switzerland, the first as a separate event. Sonja Henie of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
