Shinzō Fukuhara

Template:Short description was a Japanese photographer.

He was born in Kyōbashi-ku, Tokyo, on 25 July 1883, as the fourth son of Arinobu Fukuhara, the head of Apothecary Shiseidō (which in 1927 would be incorporated as Shiseidō) and Toku Fukuhara (Template:Category handler). The third brother predeceased his birth, so he was named and treated as the third son. His two other elder brothers also died young, but the next brother, Rosō, would also win fame as a photographer; and, to a lesser degree, his youngest brother Nobuyoshi (信義, b.1897) would too, under the name Tōru Namiki (Template:Category handler).

Fukuhara first used a camera in 1896, if not earlier. He went to Columbia University to study pharmacology in 1908, and after his graduation traveled around England, Germany and Italy before settling in Paris in 1913. While there he certainly viewed much art and is likely to have seen various exhibitions of post-Impressionist works; Iizawa sees the influence of artists such as Seurat in Fukuhara's photographs later collected as "Paris and the Seine."

Fukuhara died on 4 November 1948.

Photograph series by Fukuhara

Paris and the Seine

• Pari to Seinu (Template:Category handler) / Paris et la Seine. Shashin Geijutsusha, 1922. Facsimile ed. Tokyo: Kokushokankōkai, 2007. Template:ISBN. New ed. JPS, 1935. Online at Shiseido)

The twenty-four plates are also shown in Yamada, pp. 5–29.

Paris and the Seine, continued

The ten plates of Le nouveau Paris et la Seine were published one per month in the magazine Shashin Geijutsu (Template:Category handler), from November 1922 through September 1923 (there was a break in January). They are shown in Yamada, pp. 30–44.

Hikari to Sono Kaichō

• Fukuhara Shinzō Shashin Gashū: Hikari to Sono Kaichō (Template:Category handler). Shashin Geijutsusha, 1923.
• Shinpen fūkei (Template:Category handler). Shiseido, 1930.

Fourteen plates are shown in Yamada, pp. 55–82.

West Lake

• Saiko fūkei (Template:Category handler) / Beautiful West Lake. Tokyo: JPS, 1931. A collection of twenty-four numbered plates (about 16×21 cm), and one smaller plate as a frontispiece. A supplementary title page announces the book in English as Light with It Harmony; it has no Japanese-language counterpart. (online at Shiseido).

Matsue

• Matsue fūkei (Template:Category handler) / The Old Town of Matsue. JPS, 1935. (online at Shiseido)

Hawai'i

• Hawai fūkei (Template:Category handler) / The Sunny Hawaii. JPS, 1937. (online at Shiseido)

Texts by Fukuhara

• Tabi no shashin satsuei annai (Template:Category handler). Asahi Shinbunsha, 1937.
• Fukuhara Shinzō zuihitsu: Shashin o kataru (Template:Category handler). Musashi Shobō, 1943.
• Fukuhara Shinzō ronsetsu: Shashin geijutsu (Template:Category handler). Musashi Shobō, 1943.

References and further reading

• Template:In lang Fukuhara Shinzō (Template:Category handler). Ed. Template:Category handler. Shiseido, 1970.
• Template:In lang Fukuhara Shinzō, Fukuhara Rosō: Hikari to sono kaichō (Template:Category handler, Shinzō Fukuhara, Rosō Fukuhara: Light and its harmony). Nikon Salon Books 3. Tokyo: Nikkor Club, 1977.
• Template:In lang Fukuhara Shinzō to bijutsu to Shiseidō ten (Template:Category handler) / Shinzo Fukuhara: Art and Shiseido. Tokyo: Setagaya Art Museum, 2007. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the museum in 2007, concentrating more on Fukuhara's influence than on his own works. Despite the alternative title, in Japanese only.
• Template:In lang Fukuhara Shinzō to Fukuhara Rosō (Template:Category handler, Shinzō Fukuhara and Rosō Fukuhara). Nihon no Shashinka 3. Tokyo: Iwanami, 1997. Template:ISBN.
• Hikari no shijō: Fukuhara Shinzō no sekai (Template:Category handler) / The World of Shinzo Fukuhara: Poetics of Light. Tokyo: Shiseido Corporate Culture Department, 1994.
• Hikari no shijin: Fukuhara Shinzō, Nobutatsu, Nobuyoshi shashinten (Template:Category handler). Tokyo: Shiseido Corporate Culture Department, 1994.
• Hikari to sono kaichō: Fukuhara Shinzō, Fukuhara Rosō: 1913-nen – 1941-nen (Template:Category handler) / The Light with Its Harmony: Shinzo Fukuhara / Roso Fukuhara: Photographs 1913–1941. Tokyo: Watari-um, 1992. Template:ISBN. Text in Japanese and English.
• Template:In lang Niwa (Template:Category handler). Nihon shashinka jiten (Template:Category handler) / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. Template:ISBN. P.268.
• Template:In lang Iizawa, Kohtaro, and Hervé Chandès. Shinzo et Roso Fukuhara. Paris: Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, 1994. Template:ISBN.
• Shinzo and Roso Fukuhara: Photographs by Ginza Modern Boys 1913–1941. New York: Sepia International, 2000. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Sepia International, NYC, September–October 2000.
• Template:In lang Yamada Katsumi (Template:Category handler). Shashinka Fukuhara Shinzō no shoshin, 1883–1948 (Template:Category handler, The original purpose of the photographer Shinzō Fukuhara, 1883–1948). Tokyo: Shiseido, distributed by Kyūryūdō, 2005. Template:ISBN.

External links

• Template:In lang Shinzō and Rosō Fukuhara at Shiseido. A large collection of their photographs, and some other materials.