Kira Sugiyama
October 17, 1910 – December 12, 1988 was a Japanese photographer. Sugiyama was born in Shizuoka prefecture. He attended Waseda Middle School but left after his parents died during the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake.
Kira Sugiyama
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- Kira Sugiyama was born on 17 October 1910. · Ito.
- Nationality
- Japan · Empire of Japan
- Occupation
- photographer
- Fields
- photography · portrait photography · nude
- Languages
- Japanese
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October 17, 1910 – December 12, 1988 was a Japanese photographer. Sugiyama was born in Shizuoka prefecture. He attended Waseda Middle School but left after his parents died during the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake.
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In 1927 he joined Paramount News, where he learned to do photojournalism. In 1936 he published a series in a magazine depicting women moving. In 1938, Sugiyama was among the photographers involved in the Youth Reportage Photography Research Association (Seinen Hōdō Shashin Kenkyūkai), a group formed with the support of Photo Times in which Ken Domon and Hiroshi Hamaya also participated. During World War II he broadcast as a member of the Imperial Japanese Army, most notably at the battle of Attu. After the war, Sugiyama returned to Paramount News. He then transitioned to nude photography and became a pioneer in the field. In 1953 he went to Sao Paulo, Brazil. After returning to Japan, he began exhibiting his photographs in 1969. In 1978 he went to Attu Island and later exhibited the photographs he took in remembrance of his comrades there.
The recorded working language is Japanese. The field of work recorded is photography, portrait photography and nude.
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1910
Kira Sugiyama was born on 17 October 1910.
1988
Kira Sugiyama died on 12 December 1988.
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Kira Sugiyama was born at Ito.
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Kira Sugiyama was born in Ito.
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- 1.Nihon shashinka jiten ( ) / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. . (in Japanese)
- 2.アヴァンガルド勃興 近代日本の前衛写真 プレスリリース. Tokyo Photographic Art Museum. 4.
- 3.アサヒカメラの90年 第5回 写真雑誌の思想戦. Birds Inc.
- 4.20世紀日本人名事典. 杉山 吉良(スギヤマ キラ)とは？ 意味や使い方. コトバンク.
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