SUGINO, Yasushi

About Japanese photographer, Yasushi SUGINO

Amateur photographer Yasushi SUGINO lived in Ikoma, near Kyoto, and was a member of the Osaka Kogei Kurabu club, led for a while by photographer Takeji IWAMIJA who lived in the west part of Japan and was very interested in traditionnal handcraft, architecture and buddhism. Both had a classic photographic aesthetic. Later, Yasushi SUGINO took a more modern aesthetic path, following the avant-garde of the 1930's. He photographed empty streets, damaged walls. Human faces are only seen through bilboards stick on posts. He observed surfaces – like curtains – eggs in a basket or in the pavement. We barely see the sky in his photographs, his camera striclty turned to the bottom most of the time.

Photo books by as well as with works by Yasushi SUGINO

• 'Shinshoku Fukei / Impressive Landscape' (1970); 'Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and 70s (by Ryuichi Kaneko and Ivan Vartanian); 'The Japanese Photobook, 1912–1980' (2017, by Manfred Heiting and Ryuichi Kaneko)