Shōzō Kitadai
Shōzō Kitadai was a Japanese photographer. In 1956, he became one of the approximately forty members of the newly founded Japan Subjective Photography League, a postwar framework that briefly brought prewar avant-garde figures such as Shūzō Takiguchi, Kansuke Yamamoto, and younger photographers including Kiyoji Ōtsuji, Ikkō Narahara, and Yasuhiro Ishimoto into the same orbit of experimental photography.
Also recorded as Shozo Kitadai · Shouzou Kitadai · Kitadai Shozo
Shōzō Kitadai
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- 1921
- Died
- Shōzō Kitadai died, sources differ on the date (in 2003 and in 2001).
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- Japan · Empire of Japan
- Occupation
- photographer
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- Japanese
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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.主観主義写真（主観的写真）. artscape.
- 3.Exhibiting “The End of Modern Photography”: Ten Artists of Contemporary Japanese Photography and Fifteen Photographers Today. SFMOMA.
- 4.Kaneko, Ryūichi. Japan's Modern Divide: The Photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto. Getty Publications. 172. 2013. 9781606061329.
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