ISHIGURO, Kenji

About Japanese photographer, Kenji ISHIGURO (石黒 健治, b.1935)

Born in Fukui Prefecture and raduated from Kuwasawa Design School in 1959, Kenji ISHIGURO received a Best New Artist Award from the Photographic Society of Japan in the same year. Main exhibitions include 'Fuko na wakamono-tachi', 'Natural', 'Theater' as well as 'Fufu no shozo'. His broad-ranged activities further include taking charge of photography for Shohei Imamura’s film 'A Man Vanishes', and directing the movie 'Muryoku no ou' among others.

Photo books by as well as with works by Kenji ISHIGURO

• 'Hiroshima Now' (1970); 'Chokei' (1976); 'Oneness' (1992); 'South Fairy Tale' (1993); '328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers (日本写真家事典,, 2000.); 'Portraits of the 60s' (2006); 'Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and 70s' (by Ryuichi Kaneko and Ivan Vartanian); 'Hiroshima 1965' (2018); 'Youth 1968' (2018);