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 ...

, filmmaker, arts curator and art theorist. He is also Professor at the

Tama Art University or is a private Art school, art university located in Tokyo, Japan. It is known as one of the top art schools in Japan. History The forerunner of Tamabi was Tama Imperial Art School (多摩帝国美術学校, Tama Teikoku Bijutsu Gakkō) fou ...

since 1995. In 2000, Minato served as curator of the arts exhibition ''Serendipity: Photography, Video, Experimental Film and Multimedia Installation from Asia''. Among his other major curatorial works is the Japanese Pavilion at the Venezia Biennale (Venice, Italy) in 2007.

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Bibliography

*''Nihon shashinka jiten'' () / ''328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers.'' Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. . Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese. * « Chihiro Minato: Only Once », ''

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'', number 353, 2009 Japanese photographers 1960 births Living people {{Japan-photographer-stub