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Michael Hoppen Contemporary to Present Photographer Kishin Shinoyama |
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| Written by Casey Hampton |
| Tuesday, 22 December 2009 04:36 |
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 By the age of 10 he was given his first camera and was proficient and keen
enough to establish his own working darkroom. He studied photography at Nihon
University, Tokyo, also working as a freelance photographer for the Light
Publicity Company in the early 1960s. He worked in editorial and fast became one
of the youngest and most well thought of in his field photographing everything
from pearls to jet planes with a fresh, dynamic sense of imagery and symbolism.
After leaving Light Publicity in 1968 to freelance, his creative energy and unique character and appearance made him a mass media star. His photographs of the celebrities of the day, including female impersonator Akihiro Mruyama and his nude studies created a sensation. In 1970 his exhibition NUDE – Kishin Shinoyama Exhibition, which focused around his work in Death Valley, drew great attention and praise for its challenging images of the female form, and the fame of ‘Shinoyama of the Nudes’ was assured. The book Nude has now become highly valuable and collectable, as have other publications of his work. In October of 1968 his one man exhibition Birth – photographs taken on location on Tokunoshima in Southern Japan – showed the beginnings of the psychedelic and daring nature of his work, with that sense of nostalgia linked with the future that is so evocative of the late 1960s. This exhibition is a chance to see vintage prints and more recent re-explorations of earlier solarization techniques by an artist was was at the forefront of challenges to preconceived ideas of beauty and the nude. The Michael Hoppen Gallery is wholly devoted to the photographic image as art. The gallery opened in Chelsea on October 1st 1993 and has become a formidable presence in the international photography community. The Michael Hoppen Gallery’s main goal is to encourage the love, appreciation, and collecting of the photograph. Michael, who was a photographer himself with more than twenty years experience, and a long time collector of fine photography, is ideally qualified to help, advise and encourage the appreciation of the medium in all its guises: from acquainting collectors of the different periods and styles, to understanding the differences in photographic processes and many of the other important elements that go into making, not just the taking, of the photographic image as art. Visit : http://www. Click on logo below to add this article to your favorite Social Website ~ |
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