TSUKIJI, Hitoshi

About Japanese photographer Hitoshi TSUKIJI (b.1947)

Originally self-taught, Hitoshi TSUKIJI later became acquainted with the book designer Nobuyoshi KIKUCHI, who taught him methods of photographic expression and thought. Since the mid-1960s, he has pursued the essence of photographic expression in the city with a sharp eye while eliminating lyricism. He had learned much from photographic trends in Europe and the U.S., opposed emotional photographs that merely explained and portrayed their subjects, which in turn provided the images’ history, narrative, and event. In 1975, he self-published 'Vertical', to pursue expressions unique to the photographic medium. In the latter half of the 1970s, young 'post-Provoke' photographers started independent galleries and magazines to create and disseminate 'photographs of our own generation.' Through the independently operated Photo Gallery Prism, launched in Shinjuku, he became acquainted with Ryuichi Kaneko, Shinzo Shimao and Miyabi Taniguchi. Along with them, he established 'Camera Works' in 1979 as a place to publish a series of photobooks including those compiling their own works. The project, however, was never realized and the booklet 'Camera works tokyo' was published in the interim.

Photo books by as well as with works by Hitoshi TSUKIJI

• 'Perpendicularly' (1975); 'The Vertical Realm / Suichnokujo no' (1975); 'Shashinzo' (1984); '328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers' (2000); 'Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and 70s' (2009, by Ryuichi Kaneko and Ivan Vartanian); 'Shashin no hanashi' (2014);
  

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