About Japanese photographer Ichirō KOJIMA (小島, 1924–1964)

Ichirō KOJIMA was a renowned Japanese photographer, as well as a solitary photographer who continued to photograph Aomori in the 1950s

Photo books by as well as with works by Ichirō KOJIMA

'Tsugaru' (1963, 2014); 'Post-war Japan through photography from the collection of the Yamaguchi Museum of Art' (1996, together with works by Ihei KIMUA, Ikko NARAHARA, Kikuji KAWADA, Eikoh HOSOE, Shomei TOMATSU, Yutaka TAKANASHI, Daido MORIYAMA, Nobuyoshi ARAKI, Masatoshi NAITO, Issei SUDA, Shigeo GOCHO and about 20 others); '328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers' (2000); 'Hysteric Eleven' (2004); 'Kamagasaki. Tsugaru' (2007, together with Siryu INOUE); 'Photographs 1924-64' (2009); 'Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and '70s' (2009, by  Ryuichi Kaneko and Ivan Vartanian); 'Tohoku Through The Eyes of Japanese Photographers' (2012, together with works by Teisuke CHIBA, Hideo HAGA, Masatoshi NAITO, Hiroshi OSHIMA, Meiki LIN,Masaru TATSUKI, Sendai Collectiom; Nao TSUDA, Naoya HATAKEJAMA);

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The out-of-print photo volume 'Tsugaru' by Ichiro KOJIMA is a facsimile of the 1963 original and contains b/w photographs taken in and around the Tsugaru region: Shots of snow-covered landscapes and rural people practicing traditional customs and rituals.
0,00 € * Weight 0.6 kg
The out-of-print photo book compendium 'Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and '70s' by Kaneko & Vartanian presents relevant publications of that era. Some of the most influential works and forgotten gems are presented and placed in a sociological context.
498,00 € * Weight 1.7 kg
Exhibitions
  • 2008: 'Photographing the North', Aomori Prefectural Museum of Art, JP;