Yasuzō Nojima (野島 康三, Nojima Yasuzō, 1889-1964) was a Japanese photographer.[1] He is particularly well known for his unidealized nudes of "ordinary" Japanese women executed in both pictorialist and modernist styles.[2]
Nojima began studying at Keio University in 1906, and began taking photographs two years later. From 1915 to 1920 he ran a gallery, the Misaka Photo Shop, where he had his first solo exhibition in 1920. Around that same time he opened the Kabutoya Gado gallery, which was connected to the shirakaba-ha literary movement. Nojima later operated several other studios, such as the Nonomiya Photography Studio, and Nojima Tei, which was a salon based in his house.[3]
He became a member of the Japan Photographic Society in 1928.[3]
In 1984 Nojima was posthumously inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum.[4]
References
edit- ^ (in Japanese) Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, editor. 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers (『日本写真家事典』, Nihon shashinka jiten). Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN 4-473-01750-8
- ^ Philip Charrier, "Nojima Yasuzō's Primitivist Eye: 'Nude' and 'Natural' in Early Japanese Art Photography," Japanese Studies, Vol. 26, No. 1 (May 2006): 47-68.
- ^ a b C. A. Xuan Mai Ardia (20 October 2014). "Yasuzō Nojima: The Complex Nudity of Ordinary Form". theculturetrip.com. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
- ^ "Yasuzō Nojima". International Photography Hall of Fame. Retrieved 23 July 2022.
External links
edit- "Yasuzo Nojima (1889 – 1964)". La Petite Mélancolie (in French). 1 February 2020. Archived from the original on 27 February 2021.
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