Yasuzō Nojima
Japanese photographer
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Yasuzō Nojima (野島 康三, Nojima Yasuzō; 1889-1964) was a Japanese photographer.[1] He is particularly well known for his unidealized nudes of "ordinary" Japanese women executed in both pictorialist and modernist styles.[2] His work ranged from kaiga shugi shashin (pictorial photography) to Shinkō shashin (new/straight photography) in the early twentieth century.[3]
Early life
Nojima began studying at Keio University in 1906, and began taking photographs two years later.
Photographic career
From 1915 to 1920 he ran a gallery, the Misaka Photo Shop, where he had his first solo exhibition in 1920. Around that same time he opened the Kabutoya Gado gallery, which was connected to the shirakaba-ha literary movement. Nojima later operated several other studios, such as the Nonomiya Photography Studio, and Nojima Tei, which was a salon based in his house.[4]
He became a member of the Japan Photographic Society in 1928.[4]
In 1984 Nojima was posthumously inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum.[5]
