Susumu Matsushima
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Nihongo". was a Japanese photographer famous for portraits of women, fashion photography, and nudes.
Early life
Matsushima was born on 5 January 1913 in Ushigome, Tokyo. He studied at Tōkyō Kōtō Kōgei Gakkō (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler, later incorporated within Chiba University), where a fellow-student was Gen Ōtsuka.
Photography career
On graduating in 1933, he joined Jiji Shinpō-sha, but soon quit and moved to Nikkatsu, where he worked as a photographer, focusing especially on portraits of women, which he also submitted to Photo Times and other photographic magazines.
After the war Matsushima went freelance, working on portraits of women, fashion, and the like. In 1948 he created the group Shashinka Shūdan (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler) with Fujio Matsugi, Sankichi Ozaki and others. He continued to work prolifically after this.
Matsushima was an honorary member of the Japan Professional Photographers Society and the Japan Photographers Association.[1]
Solo exhibitions
- Dai ikkai Matsushima Susumu Josei Shashin-ten (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler), 1952.[2]
- Matsushima Susumu Josei Shashin Kyōshitsu (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler), 1969.[2]
Publications
- Josei satsuei no jissai (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler. Tokyo: Amiko Shuppansha, 1951. Template:In lang
- Josei-bi no utsushikata (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler). 大泉書店, 1951. Template:In lang
- Young Lady Nude: 36 Sheets of Color. 三世新社, 1968. A portfolio.
- (Joint work) Pōtrēto nūdo fotogurafi Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler). N.p. Matsushima Susumu Fotosutajio, 1979. Template:In lang
- Āto forumu: 70-nin no moderu ni yoru rafu-pōzu (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler). Tokyo: Erute Shuppan, 1990. Template:ISBN. Template:In lang
- Sutā pōtrēto-shū (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler). Template:In lang[3]
- Nūdo forumu (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler). Template:In lang[3]
Notes
- ↑ Japan Professional Photographers Society, Japan Professional Photographers Society Template:Webarchive Template:In lang; JPA, Japan Photographers Association Template:In lang; both accessed 4 April 2008
- ↑ a b According to Shashinka wa nani o hyōgen shita ka, p.35; this gives no information beyond the title and year.
- ↑ a b According to Shashinka wa nani o hyōgen shita ka, p.35; this gives no information beyond the title.
References
- Nihon no shashin: Uchinaru katachi, sotonaru katachi 1: Torai kara 1945 made (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler) / Japanese Photography: Form In/Out 1: From Its Introduction to 1945. Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1996. Template:In lang Exhibition catalogue. Text and captions in Japanese and English.
- Nihon shashinka jiten (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler) / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. Template:ISBN. Template:In lang Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese.
- Shashinka wa nani o hyōgen shita ka: 1945–1960 (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler, What were photographers expressing? 1945–1960). Tokyo: Konica Plaza, 1991. Template:In lang
- Mention of Susumu Matsushima's death Template:In lang