HOSOE, Eikoh

About Japanese Photographer, Eikoh HOSOE (b.1933, in Yonezawa, Yamagata Prefecture).

Eikō or Eikoh HOSOE (Japanese 細江 英公, Hosoe Eikō) is a Japanese photographer and film producer. His real given name is Toshihiro (敏廣). However, after World War II, he adopted the stage name Eikō to symbolize a new Japan. At the age of 17, he decided to study at the Tokyo College of Photography, which he left in 1951 after successfully graduating. In 1956, he had his first solo exhibition. His photographic work is strongly influenced by surrealism. He has been the director of the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts in Kiyosato in the Hokuto Municipality of Yamanashi Prefecture since its establishment in 1995, and has taught at the Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics since 1975.

Photo books by and with works by Eikoh HOSOE

• 'Otoko to onna' (おとこと女, 'Man and Woman', 1959, 1961); 'Association of Dance Experience' (1960, 2020); 'Barakei. Killed by Roses' (1963, 1971, 1984, 1985, 2002 as 'Ba-ra-kei. Ordeal by Roses'); 'A Dog's Guide to Tokyo' (1969); 'Kamaitachi' (1969, 2006, 2009); 'Return to Hiroshima' (1970); 'Hōyō (抱擁; Embrace, 1971); 'Photographs 1960-1980' (1982); 'Gaudi no Uchū (ガウディの宇宙; "Gaudi's Universe" (1986, 1992); 'Meta' (1994); 'Eikoh Hosoe. Photography' (2002); 'A World of Spherical Dualism of Photography' (2006); 'Butterfly Dream' (2006); 'Shi no Hai: Deadly Ashes' (2007); 'Theatre of Memory' (2010); 'Simmon: A Private Landscape' (2012); Photographers A-Z' (2015, 2022, by Hans-Michael Koetzle); 'Eikoh Hosoe' (2021).
  

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