Jun Miki
Illustration — Jun Miki,1950 14 September 1919 – 22 February 1992 was a Japanese photographer and one of Japan's pioneers in photojournalism. The Selection Committee of Nikon Salon established the Miki Jun Award in 1999 to remember his legacy.
Jun Miki
撮影者不明 · 三木淳 『昭和写真・全仕事SERIES・7 三木淳』 朝日新聞社〈昭和写真・全仕事SERIES・7〉、1982年。 · Public domain
- Born
- 1919 · Okayama Prefecture.
- Died
- 1992 · Tokyo.
- Nationality
- Japan · Empire of Japan
- Occupation
- photographer
- Education
- Keio University
- Honours
- Order of the Sacred Treasure and 3rd class
- Languages
- Japanese
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Illustration — Jun Miki,1950 14 September 1919 – 22 February 1992 was a Japanese photographer and one of Japan's pioneers in photojournalism. The Selection Committee of Nikon Salon established the Miki Jun Award in 1999 to remember his legacy.
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Jun Miki studied at Keio University. The recorded working language is Japanese. Employment is recorded with Nihon University. Work by Jun Miki is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art. Distinctions recorded are Order of the Sacred Treasure, 3rd class.
• Dokyumentarī no jidai: Natori Yōnosuke, Kimura Ihee, Domon Ken, Miki Jun no shashin kara / The Documentary Age: Photographs by Natori Younosuke, Kimura Ihee, Domon Ken, and Miki Jun. Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 2001. An exhibition catalogue. Captions in both Japanese and English, other text in Japanese only.
The caption by Miki is as follows. "After the end of the war, many people came from abroad and asked for a job. It was a desperate day when I had to do something to live. Somehow, many people started early in the morning to get a job for the day. Jun Miki "Showa Photographs, All Work SERIES, 7 Jun Miki" Asahi Shimbun Showa Photographs, All Work SERIES, 7, 1982.
三木淳 · 『週刊サンニュース』1947年12月18日号、サン・ニュース・フォトス
It was said that "Stanley will not be interviewed at all. Even a photographer of LIFE cannot take a picture", but when Miki visited, he accepted the picture in the luxury women's clothing in his department store.
三木淳 · 須田慎太郎 『写真家 三木淳と「ライフ」の時代』 平凡社、2017年9月13日。 ISBN 978-4-582-23128-1 。
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