Shunji Ōkura
Shunji Ōkura (2 May 1937 – 6 February 2015) was a Japanese photographer.
Shunji Ōkura
- Name
- Shunji Ōkura
- Born
- 2 May 1937
- Birthplace
- Ushigome, Tokyo, Japan
- Died
- 6 February 2015
- Place of death
- Japan
- Occupation
- Photographer
- Nationality
- Japan · Empire of Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
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• Name — Shunji Ōkura • Born — 2 May 1937 • Birthplace — Ushigome, Tokyo, Japan • Died — 6 February 2015 • Place of death — Japan • Occupation — Photographer • Years Active — 1960s–2010s • Notable Works — Emma (1971)
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Shunji Ōkura appears in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as a photographer (2 May 1937 – 6 February 2015). Shunji Ōkura was born on 2 May 1937 in Tokio. Shunji Ōkura died on 6 February 2015.
Biography
Biography
He was the grandson of painter Gyokudō Kawai. In 1958 he became Akira Satō's assistant and since 1959 he worked as a freelance photographer. Ōkura's Emma photobook, published in 1971, a candid story-portrait of his friend and muse, Japanese actress and singer Emma Sugimoto, was awarded the Japan Photograph Association's annual prize. Ōkura died on 6 February 2025, at the age of 77.
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1937
Shunji Ōkura was born in 1937 at Tokyo Prefecture.
2015
Shunji Ōkura died in 2015.
Books
• Emma, private 2. Tokyo: Camera Mainichi, 1971 • Muses, Tokyo: Seibundo Shinkosha, 1992 • Kabuki today, text by Iwao Kamimura. Tokyo, 2001
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