Issei Suda
Issei Suda (24 April 1940 – 7 March 2019) was a Japanese photographer who "[combined] a pure appreciation of Japanese customs with a sharp investigative eye".
Also recorded as Suda Issei
Issei Suda
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- Full name
- 須田一政.
- Born
- 1940. · Kanda-ku.
- Died
- 2019. · Chiba.
- Nationality
- Japan and Empire of Japan.
- Occupation
- photographer and professor.
- Education
- Tokyo College of Photography.
- Honours
- Higashikawa Prize and Domon Ken Award.
- Languages
- Japanese.
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Issei Suda (24 April 1940 – 7 March 2019) was a Japanese photographer who "[combined] a pure appreciation of Japanese customs with a sharp investigative eye".
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Life and career
Life and career
Issei Suda studied at Tokyo College of Photography. The recorded working language is Japanese. Employment is recorded with Osaka University of Arts. Work by Issei Suda is recorded in the collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Photography Collection and J. Paul Getty Museum. Distinctions recorded are Higashikawa Prize and Domon Ken Award.
Born Kazumasa Suda (Suda Kazumasa) in Kanda, Tokyo on 24 April 1940, Suda dropped out of Toyo University in 1961 and entered Tokyo College of Photography, from which he graduated in 1962. From 1967 to 1971, Suda worked as the cameraman of the theatrical group Tenjō Sajiki, under Shūji Terayama. He worked as a freelance photographer from 1971. His first photobook, Fūshi kaden, was named after a treatise by Zeami Motokiyo; it won a Photographic Society of Japan newcomer's award in 1976. His fourth, Ningen no kioku, won the Domon Ken Award in 2014. Suda was a professor at Osaka University of Arts. He died at the age of 78 on 7 March 2019.
Works and production
Works and production
Catalogued output is recorded as follows. It is also recorded that gunma, Ota, from the series "Fushi Kaden" is dated June 9, 1975, printed c.
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Kanda-ku.
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Chiba.
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Books by Suda
• Illustration — Some photobooks by Suda, left to right: Waga-Tōkyō hyaku (1979), Ningen no kioku, Akai hana, Fūshi kaden (JCII Photo Salon library), Min'yō sanga, Kado no tabakoya made no tabi, Fushikaden (2012), Early Works 1970–1975, Fragments of Calm, Tokyokei, Childhood Days, Fragment of Everyday Life... flanked by irrelevant Pelicans • Fūshi kaden. Sonorama Shashin Sensho 16. Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama, 1978.. • Waga-Tōkyō hyaku. Nikon Salon Books 5. Tokyo: Nikkor Club, 1979.. • Inu no hana: Kimagure, shashin, sanpo. Tokyo: IBC, 1991.. • Ningen no kioku. Tokyo: Creo, 1996.. • Akai hana. Tokyo: Wides, 2000.. Early photographs. • Suda Issei shashinten "Fūshi kaden". JCII Photo Salon library 165. Tokyo: JCII, 2005. • Min'yō sanga. Tokyo: Tōseisha, 2007.. • Kado no tabakoya made no tabi. Tokyo: Place M, 2011.. • The Work of a Lifetime: Photographs 1968–2006. Berlin: Only Photography, 2011.. • Fūshi kaden = Fushikaden. Tokyo: Akio Nagasawa, 2012.. • Rubber. Tokyo: M-Books, 2012.. Photographs of rubber fetishism. • Sen-kyūhyaku-nanajūgo Miura Misaki = 1975 Miuramisaki. Tokyo: Akio Nagasawa, 2012.. • Sparrow Island. Portland: Nazraeli, 2012.. Photographs of Suzumejima, an islet in Chiba. • 松之物語 = Monogatari of Pines. Taiwan: 亦安工作室, 2013.. • Mumei no danjo: Tōkyō 1976–8. Tokyo: Akio Nagasawa, 2013. 48 pages; edition of 50 copies. • Early Works 1970–1975. Tokyo: Akio Nagasawa, 2013.. • Nagi no hira = Fragments of Calm. Tokyo: Tōseisha, 2013.. • Tōkyō-kei = Tokyokei. Tokyo: Zen Foto Gallery, 2013. • Waga-Tōkyō hyaku = Waga Tokyo 100. Tokyo: Zen Foto Gallery, 2013.. • Osorezan e = The Journey to Osorezan. Tokyo: Zen Foto Gallery, 2013.. Photographs of Osorezan. • Sōmatō no yō ni: Kamagasaki 2000/2014 = Kamagasaki Magic Lantern. Tokyo: Zen Foto Gallery, 2015.. Photographs of Kamagasaki, Osaka. • Childhood Days. Tokyo: Akio Nagasawa, 2015.. • Rei. Tokyo: Akio Nagasawa, 2015.. Photographs of mannequins. • Bōsō fūdoki. Kamakura: Super Labo, 2015.. Photographs of Bōsō. • Suda Issei shashinten "Min'yō sanga". JCII Photo Salon library 294. Tokyo: JCII, 2016.. • Suddenly. Tokyo: Place M, 2016.. • Sein. Kamakura: Super Labo, 2017.. • Kannagara = Kan-nagara. Tokyo: Place M, 2017.. • Nichijō no danpen = Fragment of Everyday Life. Kyoto: Seigensha, 2018.. • Mōmaku chokketsu yubisaki me kamera = The Mechanical Retina on My Fingertips. Tokyo: Zen Foto Gallery, 2018.. Text in Japanese, English and Chinese. • Gankotoshi. Tokyo: Akio Nagasawa, 2019.. • Entotsu no aru fūkei. Tokyo: Place M, 2019.. • Tokyo Modern Pictorial. Tokyo: Zen Foto Gallery, 2020.. • 78. Paris: Chose Commune, 2020.. • New Life. Tokyo: Akio Nagasawa, 2020.. • Eden. Tokyo: Place M, 2020.. • My Japan. Amsterdam: Fw, 2021. Edited by Anne Ruygt.. With an essay by Frits Gierstberg. • Mumei no danjo (= Anonymous Man and Woman. Tokyo: Akio Nagasawa, 2021. 100 photographs from the series made in the late 1970s. 160 pages; edition of 600 copies. • Fūshi kaden = Exhibition Fushikaden. Ningbo: Jiazazhi, 2020. 71 photographs on 72 pages. • Family Diary = Kazoku nikki. Marseille: Chose Commune, 2021.. With text in French, English and Japanese. • Kantō fūtan = The Sketch of Kanto Area. Tokyo: Akio Nagasawa, 2022. Edition of 600 copies. 120 pages. Hardcover, 207mm × 216mm. • Holy Night. Marseille: Chose Commune, 2022.. With text in French, English and Japanese. • Monogusa shui = Monogusa Shui. Tokyo: Akio Nagasawa, 2023. Edition of 600 copies. 84 pages, 61 monochrome images (photographed 1976–1982, mostly in Tokyo). Hardcover, 207mm × 216mm.
General references
General references
• Suda Issei / Issei Suda. Nihon no Shashinka 40. Tokyo: Iwanami, 1998..
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- 1.大澤友貴, 「須田一政」, 『フジフイルム・フォトコレクション展 富士フイルム株式会社創立80周年記念コレクション 日本の写真史を飾った写真家の「私の1枚」』 = 101 Only One Photo Collection (Tokyo: Fujifilm, 2016; ), pp. 136/238.
- 2.「天井桟敷」カメラマン、写真家の須田一政さん死去 , Yomiuri Shimbun, 7 March 2019. Accessed 7 March 2019.
- 3.写真家の須田一政さんが死去 「風姿花伝」, Sankei Shinbun, 7 March 2019. Accessed 7 March 2019.
- 4.鈴木佳子, 「須田一政」, 『日本写真家事典』 = 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers (Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000; , p. 187). Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese.
- 5.日本カメラ博物館 JCII Camera Museum：須田一政作品展「風姿花伝」.
- 6.Akio Nagasawa's page about Fushikaden, as of 8 January 2016.
- 7.須田一政 Issei Suda 写真集「Rubber」. Place M Online Shop.
- 8.Akio Nagasawa's page about 1975 Miuramisaki, as of 8 January 2016.
- 9.Akio Nagasawa's page about one of five cover variants of Early Works, as of 8 January 2016.
- 10.Zen Foto Gallery's page about Tokyokei.
- 11.Zen Foto Gallery's page about Waga Tokyo 100.
- 12.Zen Foto Gallery's page about The Journey to Osorezan.
- 13.Zen Foto Gallery's page about Kamagasaki Magic Lantern.
- 14.Akio Nagasawa's page about one of two cover variants of Childhood Days, as of 8 January 2016.
- 15.Akio Nagasawa's page about Rei, as of 1 March 2016.
- 16.日本カメラ博物館 JCII Camera Museum：須田一政作品展「民謡山河」.
- 17.須田一政 Issei Suda 写真集「Suddenly」. Place M Online Shop.
- 18.須田一政 Issei Suda 写真集「かんながら」. Place M Online Shop.
- 19.Zen Foto Gallery's page about The Mechanical Retina at My Fingertips.
- 20.Gankotoshi: Issei Suda. Akio Nagasawa.
- 21.須田一政 Issei Suda 写真集「煙突のある風景」. Place M Online Shop.
- 22.Zen Foto Gallery's page about Tokyo Modern Pictorial.
- 23.Chose Commune's page about 78.
- 24.New Life: Issei Suda. Akio Nagasawa.
- 25.須田一政 Issei Suda 写真集「Eden」. Place M Online Shop.
- 26.AnOther. Issei Suda, the photographer who captured the soul of Japan old and new. 14 May 2021.
- 27.Anonymous Man and Woman (Tokyo 1976–78): Issei Suda. Akio Nagasawa.
- 28.Chose Commune's page about Family Diary.
- 29.The Sketch of Kanto Area: Issei Suda. Akio Nagasawa.
- 30.Chose Commune's page about Holy Night.
- 31.Monogusa Shui: Issei Suda. Akio Nagasawa.
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