Kiyoshi Suzuki
Kiyoshi Suzuki was a Japanese photographer. He began photographing in the late 1960s in Iwaki, where he was born on 30 November 1943. He worked for thirty years in relative isolation.
Kiyoshi Suzuki
- Born
- Kiyoshi Suzuki was born on 30 November 1943. · Iwaki.
- Died
- Kiyoshi Suzuki died in 2000. · Iwaki.
- Nationality
- Japan and Empire of Japan.
- Occupation
- photographer.
- Languages
- Japanese.
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Kiyoshi Suzuki was a Japanese photographer. He began photographing in the late 1960s in Iwaki, where he was born on 30 November 1943. He worked for thirty years in relative isolation.
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Solo exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
Suzuki's way of designing his photography books, layer upon layer upon layer, became central to his art.
• "Burāman no hikari" / "India". 1969. • "Tenmaku no machi" / "Mind Games". Ginza Nikon Salon (Tokyo), 1980. •. 1983. • "Gyōkan no nagame Gypsy wind Watakushi no 12-satsu" (行間の眺 gypsy wind 私の12冊). 1984. •. 1985. •. 1985. •. 1987. • "Nagare no uta" / "Sunday Picture". 1989. • "Fool's paradise (Tōkyō, Shōwa 61–63nen)" (Fool's paradise (東京・昭和61～63年). Shinjuku Nikon Salon (Tokyo), 1989. •. 1991. • "Kota Jakaruta" / "Southern Breeze". 1990s. • / "From the Border." Ginza Nikon Salon (Tokyo), 1992. (Twice, the second time in celebration of winning the Ina Nobuo Award.) • "Nagare no uta yori" / "Soul and Soul". 1990s. •. Ginza Nikon Salon (Tokyo), 1995. • "Handoreddo suteppu 1967–95" (ハンドレッド・ステップ 1967–95). Ginza Nikon Salon (Tokyo), 1995. • "Dyurasu no ryōdo". 1996–98. • "Kiyoshi Suzuki: Soul and Soul, 1969–1999". Noorderlicht Photogallery (Groningen), March–May 2008.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1943
Kiyoshi Suzuki was born on 30 November 1943.
2000
Kiyoshi Suzuki died on 1 January 2000.
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Kiyoshi Suzuki was born in Iwaki.
Birthplace
Kiyoshi Suzuki died in Iwaki.
Deathplace
Iwaki.
Birth place
Books by Suzuki
• Nagare no uta: Suzuki Kiyoshi shashinshū / Soul and Soul. [Yokohama]: [Kiyoshi Suzuki], 1972. Captions (including place and year) in Japanese only. • Facsimile edition. Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 2010.. Additional endpapers and dust cover, and a 12-page pamphlet with a commentary by Kōtarō Iizawa and a chronology in both Japanese and English. • Burāman no hikari: Suzuki Kiyoshi shashinshū. Yokohama: Sansara, 1976. Photographs of India. Captions (placenames) in Roman script only, a short essay in both Japanese and English. • Tenmaku no machi / Mind Games. Yokohama, 1982. • Yume no hashiri 1982–1987 / Street Shuffle. Yokohama: Ocean Books, 1988. • Nikutai no jidai: Taikenteki '60 nendai bunkaron. Tokyo: Gendai Shokan, 1989. Text by Kōshi Ueno (Ueno Kōshi); photographs by Suzuki. • Gusha no fune: Tōkyō Shōwa 61–63: Suzuki Kiyoshi shashinshū / The Ship of Fools. Tokyo: IBC, 1991.. • Tenchi gijō / Kiyoshi Suzuki Photographs 1990–92. Yokohama: Taman Saribukkusu, 1992. • Shūra no tani / Finish Dying. Yokohama: Deku Bukkusu, 1994. • Dyurasu no ryōdo: Marugeritto Dyurasu no Ajia / Durasia. Yokohama: G. Sāguru, 1998. • Soul and Soul 1969–1999. Groningen: Aurora Borealis, 2008.. A reprint of Suzuki's extensively marked up dummy of the 1972 book.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q5016168: Kiyoshi Suzuki
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- “Kiyoshi Suzuki”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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