Fusako Kodama
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Nihongo". is a Japanese photographer who has concentrated on people in cities as subjects.
Life and career
Kodama was born in Wakayama City (Wakayama Prefecture, Japan) in 1945. She graduated from Kuwasawa Design School in 1967.[1][2] She then worked as a photographer for a company named Le Mars (Script error: No such module "Lang".Script error: No such module "Category handler".).[2]
In 1990 Grafication, a PR magazine of Fuji Xerox, published a series of pieces by Kodama that were later collected into her first photobook, Criteria. With its depiction of nuclear power plants and other scenes of advanced technology, this book was widely noted as a remarkable document.[1]
This was followed by depictions of street life in the metropolis, in the photobook Tokyo Kinetic and various exhibitions.[1] In 1993, Kodama won the Annual Award of the Photographic Society of Japan.[3] From April 1993 to March 1995, the magazine Asahi Camera ran a series by her, Tokyo Cruising.[1]
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
- Kuraiteria (Script error: No such module "Lang".Script error: No such module "Category handler".) / Criteria.[4]
- Tōkyō Kinetikku (Script error: No such module "Lang".Script error: No such module "Category handler".). Ginza Nikon Salon, 1992.[1]
- Tokyo Photographs[4]
- Hanazakari no koro: Machi no hitobito (Script error: No such module "Lang".Script error: No such module "Category handler".)[4]
- Tōkyō kōgai (Script error: No such module "Lang".Script error: No such module "Category handler".). Gallery Art Graph, 1997.[1]
- Kibō no genzai Script error: No such module "Lang".Script error: No such module "Category handler".). Osaka Nikon Salon, July 2007.[4]
Group exhibitions
- 11-nin no Itaria, Nihon no shashinka-ten (Script error: No such module "Lang".Script error: No such module "Category handler".). Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Tokyo.[4][5]
- About Big Cities. Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (Berlin), 1993.[4][5]
- Josei-shashinka no manazashi, 1945–1997 (Script error: No such module "Lang".Script error: No such module "Category handler".). Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1998.[4]
Collections
The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography possesses twenty prints by Kodama of Tokyo and Tokyo Bay, dating from 1970 to 1977.[6]
Books by Kodama
- Kuraiteria: Kodama Fusako shashinshū (Script error: No such module "Lang".Script error: No such module "Category handler".) / Criteria. Tokyo: IPC, 1990. Template:ISBN. Color photographs, captions and text in both Japanese and English. Japan as a high-tech society. (Eleven of the photographs are of the Fukushima No. 2 nuclear power plant.)
- Sennen-go niwa: Tōkyō: Kodama Fusako shashinshū (Script error: No such module "Lang".Script error: No such module "Category handler".) / Tokyo Kinetic. Tokyo: Gendai Shokan, 1992. Template:ISBN. Black and white views of Tokyo; text in Japanese only.
Video
Together with Miho Akioka, Miyako Ishiuchi, Yuri Nagahara, Hiroko Matsuo and Michiko Matsumoto, Kodama is interviewed within the video 6 works and 6 artists.[7]
References
- ↑ a b c d e f Michiko Kasahara (Script error: No such module "Lang".Script error: No such module "Category handler".), "Kodama Fusako", in Nihon shashinka jiten (Script error: No such module "Lang".Script error: No such module "Category handler".) / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers (Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000; Template:ISBN), p.133.
- ↑ a b Ryūichi Kaneko, Shinzō Shimao, and Hiroshi Nagai, Independent Photographers in Japan, 1976–83 (Tokyo: Tōkyō Shoseki, 1989; Template:ISBN), p.22. Template:In lang (Although the title of the book is in English, the book is in Japanese only.)
- ↑ List of award winners, the Photographic Society of Japan. Template:In lang Accessed 12 March 2013.
- ↑ a b c d e f g Exhibition notice for Kibō no genzai, Nikon. Template:In lang Accessed 12 March 2013.
- ↑ a b Alumna profile Script error: No such module "webarchive"., Kuwasawa Design School. Accessed 12 March 2013.
- ↑ Search resultsScript error: No such module "Unsubst"., Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. Template:In lang Accessed 12 March 2013.
- ↑ Notice about the video Script error: No such module "webarchive"., the Third Gallery Aya. Accessed 12 March 2013.
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