Shinichiro Kobayashi
Shinichiro Kobayashi (born 19 October 1956) is a Japanese photographer, and "the leading practitioner if not the founder of the ever-popular 'Ruins' or 'Urban Exploration' genre of photography".
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Shinichiro Kobayashi
- Name
- Shinichiro Kobayashi
- Born
- 19 October 1956
- Birthplace
- Bunkyō-ku, Tokyo
- Education
- Senshu University
- Occupation
- Photographer
- Nationality
- Japan.
- Languages
- Japanese.
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Shinichiro Kobayashi (born 19 October 1956) is a Japanese photographer, and "the leading practitioner if not the founder of the ever-popular 'Ruins' or 'Urban Exploration' genre of photography".
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• Name — Shinichiro Kobayashi • Native Name — 小林 伸一郎 • Born — 19 October 1956 • Birthplace — Bunkyō-ku, Tokyo • Education — Senshu University • Occupation — Photographer • Website — https: kobayashi-shinichiro.com/
Life and career
Life and career
Born in Bunkyō-ku, Tokyo, on 19 October 1956, Kobayashi graduated from the Economics department of Senshu University in 1978. After working for studios and publishing, he went freelance in 1984, and set up Studio Rise (Sutajio Raizu) in 1988. He won various photography awards in the 1990s. Prints from Kobayashi's Deathtopia series are in the permanent collection of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.
Solo exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
• Building the Chanel Lumière Tower. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, March–April 2005. About the creation of the Chanel Ginza building. • Umihito 1977–1988 =. Nakata Museum (Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture), October–November 2008. • Hachinohe City. Kōdansha K-Square building, near Gokoku-ji, Tokyo, October 2009. • Shimanami Setouchi-kai. Nakata Museum, March–May 2011. • Torigoe now. Ueno Royal Museum, July 2019. About Torigoe (Tokyo).
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Shinichiro Kobayashi was born in 1956.
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Awards
• 38th Kōdansha publishing culture prize for photography, 2007, for (Nakigara gekijō) and (Tokyo Disneysea).
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- 1.Easterwood, Kurt. November Magazine Roundup. Japan Exposures. 1 November 2008.
- 2.「小林 伸一郎」, pp. 209–210 within 東京都写真美術館監修, 『現代写真人名事典』. Tokyo: Nichigai Associates, 2005. . (An alternative, English-language title, Biographic Dictionary of Contemporary Japanese Photography, appears within the book, whose content is in Japanese only.)
- 3.Umihito 1977–1988 = (leaflet), Nakata Museum. Accessed 8 August 2021.
- 4.Selecting "KOBAYASHI Shinichiro" within the museum's list of names starting ko brings a list of Kobayashi's prints. (NB the names of the photographers and others are in not alphabetical but gojūon order.)
- 5.写真賞 (list of the 49 winners of the photography prize), Kōdansha. Accessed 9 August 2021.
- 6.Exhibition notice (in Japanese), Tokyo Photographic Art Museum. Accessed 9 August 2021.
- 7.Nyūsu Senshū ( ), 15 October 2009, page 5. Accessed 9 August 2021.
- 8.Exhibition notice (in Japanese), Nakata Museum. Accessed 9 August 2021.
- 9.金の星社創業100周年記念出版 『鳥越NOW』発売, Kin-no-hoshi-sha, 6 June 2019. Accessed 9 August 2021.
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Identity and origins. The authorities additionally record the headings Shin'ichirō Kobayashi, Shin'ichiro Kobayashi and Shin'ichirou Kobayashi. His recorded language was Japanese.
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