List of Japanese women photographers
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This is a list of women photographers who were born in Japan or whose works are closely associated with that country.
A
- Ariko Inaoka (active since 1998), photographer
- Aya Kida (born 1974), photographer, winner of the Kimura Ihei Award
C
- Cozue Takagi (born 1985), photographer
E
- Eiko Yamazawa (1899–1995), artist, photographer, own studio
F
- Fusako Kodama (born 1945), depicted Japan as a nation of high technology, and life in Tokyo
H
- Mikiko Hara (born 1967), colour snapshots of people or things in everyday life, often causing feelings of levity or foreboding
- Hiromix (born 1976), life from a teenager's perspective and photo books on identity, community, gender and the everyday
I
- Hisae Imai (1931–2009), specialized in the photography of horses
- Miyako Ishiuchi (born 1947), contrasty prints including close-ups of the very old
K
- Rinko Kawauchi (born 1972), serene, poetic photography
- Kei Orihara (born 1948), interior portraits, photobooks for children
- Michiko Kon (born 1955), new approach to mainly black-and-white still lifes with images of everything from toothbrushes to timepieces and fish parts[1]
- Kunié Sugiura (born 1942), based in New York City
M
- Miyuki Matsuda (born 1961), an actor who has published photography of nudes
- Michiko Kon (born 1955), black and white prints, sea creatures
- Michiko Matsumoto (born 1950), portraits of artists and dancers living in various countries
- Mika Ninagawa (born 1972), brightly coloured photographs of flowers, goldfish, landscapes
- Mikiko Hara (born 1967), people in public spaces
- Miwa Yanagi (born 1967), photographic artist
- Miyako Ishiuchi (born 1947), grainy-blurry works, close-ups of the elderly
N
- Yurie Nagashima (born 1973), portraits, including portraits of herself and her family in the nude, street photography, still lifes
- Mika Ninagawa (born 1972), brightly coloured photographs of flowers, goldfish and landscapes, commercially successful in fashion and advertising
- Rika Noguchi (born 1971), landscape photographer
O
- Yoshino Ōishi (born 1944), widely travelled photojournalist
- Yuki Onodera (born 1962), images of everyday objects such as old clothes, tin cans, birds, houses shining in the darkness, and human figures[2]
- Kei Orihara (born 1948), documentary and portrait photographer, has published books on life in New York, and books for children about the disabled
R
- Rika Noguchi (born 1971), artistic photographer, based in Berlin
- Rinko Kawauchi (born 1972), poetic style, ordinary moments in life
- Ruiko Yoshida (born 1938), photojournalist
- Ryoko Suzuki (born 1970), photographic artist
S
- Tsuneko Sasamoto (born 1914), Japan's first female photojournalist, has photographed some of the country's greatest personalities and historic moments[3]
- Shima Ryū (1823–1899), earliest known Japanese woman photographer, photographed her husband in 1864, later opened a studio in Kiryū
- Mieko Shiomi (1909–1984), abstraction and realism, known for her monochrome compositions
- Kunié Sugiura (born 1942), creator of photograms
T
- Cozue Takagi (born 1985), creator of montages
- Toyoko Tokiwa (born 1930), best known for her depiction of the red-light district of post-occupation Yokohama, for a clientele of US servicemen
- Tomoko Miyamoto (born 1960), photographer
- Tomoko Sawada (born 1977), feminist photographer, performance artist
- Toyoko Tokiwa (born 1930), red-light district of Yokohama
- Tsuneko Sasamoto (born 1914), Japan's first female photojournalist
Y
- Eiko Yamazawa (1899–1995), portrait photographer and founder of a photography school
- Miwa Yanagi (born 1967), staged events with women of various ages, frequently using the computer to alter the image in strange ways, several published series including Elevator Girls
- Yasuko Kotani (born 1962), photographer
- Ruiko Yoshida (born 1938), has published several photobooks designed to fight against discrimination towards the poor and blacks, best known for Harlem Black Angels[4]
- Yoshino Ōishi (born 1944), photojournalist, educator
- Yuki Onodera (born 1962), photographer, living in France
- Yurie Nagashima (born 1973), contemporary artist, photographer
See also
References
- ↑ Ann Elliott Sherman, "Something Fishy", Metro, 17 August 2000. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
- ↑ "Yuki Onodera" (2005), The National Museum of Art, Osaka. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
- ↑ Lucy Birmingham, "The ‘plucky pioneer’ of photojournalism", The Japan Times, 24 September 2010. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
- ↑ "Ruiko Yoshida", Woman.type.jp. (Japanese) Retrieved 25 February 2013.
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