Fusako Kodama
Fusako Kodama is a Japanese photographer who has concentrated on people in cities as subjects.
Fusako Kodama
- Born
- 1945 · Wakayama.
- Died
- 2017
- Nationality
- Japan · Empire of Japan
- Occupation
- photographer
- Languages
- Japanese
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Fusako Kodama is a Japanese photographer who has concentrated on people in cities as subjects.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Fusako Kodama. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q5509872 · wikipedia · Fusako Kodama
In this article
Life and career
Life and career
Kodama was born in Wakayama City (Wakayama Prefecture, Japan) in 1945. She graduated from Kuwasawa Design School in 1967. She then worked as a photographer for a company named Le Mars. 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. This was followed by depictions of street life in the metropolis, in the photobook Tokyo Kinetic and various exhibitions. In 1993, Kodama won the Annual Award of the Photographic Society of Japan. From April 1993 to March 1995, the magazine Asahi Camera ran a series by her, Tokyo Cruising.
Solo exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
• Kuraiteria / Criteria. • Tōkyō Kinetikku. Ginza Nikon Salon, 1992. • Tokyo Photographs • Hanazakari no koro: Machi no hitobito • Tōkyō kōgai. Gallery Art Graph, 1997. • Kibō no genzai). Osaka Nikon Salon, July 2007.
Group exhibitions
Group exhibitions
• 11-nin no Itaria, Nihon no shashinka-ten. Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Tokyo. • About Big Cities. Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (Berlin), 1993. • Josei-shashinka no manazashi, 1945–1997. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1998.
Video
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.
Books by Kodama
• Kuraiteria: Kodama Fusako shashinshū / Criteria. Tokyo: IPC, 1990.. 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 / Tokyo Kinetic. Tokyo: Gendai Shokan, 1992.. Black and white views of Tokyo; text in Japanese only.
Collections
Collections
The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography possesses twenty prints by Kodama of Tokyo and Tokyo Bay, dating from 1970 to 1977.
Documents and archives
Primary material
Documents and archives
reference work
- “Fusako Kodama”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
authority record
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q5509872: Fusako Kodama
General reference · Wikidata
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessauthority record
General reference
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 18 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Photography
11,392 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Fritz SchmidtPhotographer
- Fuat UzkınayPhotographer
- Fujio MatsugiPhotographer
- Fulvio RoiterPhotographer
- Füsun ÖnalPhotographer
- Fuyuki HattoriPhotographer
- G. Augustine LynasPhotographer
- G. RameshPhotographer
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Fusako Kodama?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.