Kōyō Ishikawa
July 5, 1904 – December 26, 1989 was a Japanese photographer. • Illustration — Ishikawa with his Leica camera As an officer of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, he was one of the few known photographers of the immediate aftermath of the U.S. bombings of Tokyo in World War II, since strict regulations prohibited civilians from taking pictures of war damage.
Also recorded as Koyo Ishikawa · Kouyou Ishikawa
Kōyō Ishikawa
Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department · 'Documentary Photographs of Showa by a Metropolitan Police Department Cameraman', Japan Times, Februaby 4, 2011 · Public domain
- Born
- 1904 · Fukui Prefecture.
- Died
- 1989
- Nationality
- Japan · Empire of Japan
- Occupation
- photographer
- Languages
- Japanese
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• Illustration — Evacuees in the bombing • Illustration — Rescue workers after the bombing • Illustration — Victims of the bombing • Illustration — City in ruins after the bombing • Illustration — Bodies floating in the Sumida River • Illustration — Salvage operation in Honjo • Illustration — Street view of Asakusa • Illustration — Bodies in Ueno Park • Illustration — Waseda University after the bombing
Koyo Ishikawa
Kōyō Ishikawa · 「石川光陽写真展図録」
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1904
Kōyō Ishikawa was born in 1904 at Fukui Prefecture.
1989
Kōyō Ishikawa died.
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- 1.in lang ja Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, editor. nihongo 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers 『日本写真家事典』 Nihon shashinka jiten . Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN 4-473-01750-8
- 2.Great Tokyo Air Raid a war crime (Yomiuri Shimbun editorial). March 18, 2005.
- 3.TBS「月曜ゴールデン『シリーズ激動の昭和 3月10日東京大空襲 語られなかった33枚の真実』」.
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