Kōji Satō
1 November 1911 – 30 May 1955 was a renowned Japanese amateur photographer, particularly in the 1930s. Chōkichi Satō was born in Kumagaya, Saitama on 1 November 1911. From the age of thirteen Satō had a Thornton reflex camera; on his graduation from school he took photographs in his free time from his work in a bicycle wholesaler.
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Kōji Satō
- Born
- Kōji Satō was born on 1 November 1911. · Kumagaya.
- Died
- Kōji Satō died on 30 May 1955.
- Nationality
- Japan and Empire of Japan.
- Occupation
- photographer.
- Languages
- Japanese.
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1 November 1911 – 30 May 1955 was a renowned Japanese amateur photographer, particularly in the 1930s. Chōkichi Satō was born in Kumagaya, Saitama on 1 November 1911. From the age of thirteen Satō had a Thornton reflex camera; on his graduation from school he took photographs in his free time from his work in a bicycle wholesaler.
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Kōji Satō was born on 1 November 1911.
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Kōji Satō died on 30 May 1955.
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Kōji Satō was born at Kumagaya.
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He was given the nom de guerre Kōji Satō when young. From 1931 his photographs appeared in Camera and Shashin Geppō, and from 1933 in Shashin Salon. Satō's works were selected for the Golden Gate International Exposition in 1940. After the war, Satō changed the characters for Kōji from to. An energetic and widely exhibited portraitist before and during the war, Satō turned his camera to his parents and his children after the war. Satō died of tuberculosis on 30 May 1955. Some of Satō's photographs are in the permanent collection of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and Shimane Art Museum.
• Nihon kindai shashin no seiritsu to tenkai / The Founding and Development of Modern Photography in Japan. Tokyo: Tokyo Museum of Photography, 1995. Plate 122: "Man in black cape" (Kuromanto no otoko), 1937. • Satō Kōji no shashin / The Photographs of Koji Sato. N.p.: Kenji Satō, 2001. Captions and text in Japanese and English.
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- 1.As implied by Satō's inclusion, without special disclaimer, within 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers.
- 2.The Photographs of Koji Sato.
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