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Born
in Ibaraki Prefecture, 1933. Graduated from the
Department of Economics , Rikkyo University, 1955.
Staff photographer, Shincho Sha Publishing Compan
y, 1955-1959. Organized "VIVO" photographers agency
with E.Hosoe, S.Tomatsu, I.Narahara, and others,
1959.
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| Awards |
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Annual
Award, The Photographic Society of Japan (1996),
Domestic Arti st Prize, Higashikawa Award, Higashikawa
International Photography Festival (1996)
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| Selected One-person Exhibitions |
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"The Globe Theater", Internationale
Fototage Herten, Herten (1999), "Car Maniac", P.G.I.Shibaura
(1998), "ZENO - The Last Cosmology", P.G.I. Shibaura
(1996-97), "The Last Cosmology", Higashikawa Int
ernational Photography Festival, Higashikawa (1996),
"The Last Cosmology", M itsubishi-Jisho Artium,
Fukuoka (1996), "The Last Cosmology", Tower Gallery,
Yokohama (1995), "Los Caprichos 1970-80", P.G.I.
(1986), "Nude Museum" and " Ludwig II Collection",
P.G.I. (1984), "Kikuji Kawada Photographs", Shadai
Ga llery, Tokyo (1976), "Sacre- Atavism", Nikon
Salon, Ginza, Tokyo (1968), "Th e Map", Fuji Photo
Salon, Tokyo (1961), "The Sea", Fuji Photo Salon,
Tokyo ( 1959)
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| Selected Group Exhibitions |
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"Contemporary Photographic Art from
Japan", Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (1999),
"Master Works, Master Photographers", T okyo Metropolitan
Museum of Photography, Tokyo (1999), "Exploring
Photograph y: From the Museum Collection", National
Film Center, The National Museum of Modern Art,
Tokyo (1999), "Waterproof", Expo '98, Lisbon (1998),
"Corridor o f the Gaze / Theatrical Tableaux", Tokyo
Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo (1998),
"Under / Exposed", Stockholm Photography Festival,
Stockholm ( 1998), "Realism in Postwar Japan 1945-1960",
Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya (1998), " Japanese
Culture: The Fifty Postwar Years", Meguro Museum
of Art, Tokyo (199 5), "Objects, Faces and Anti-Narratives-Rethinking
Modernism", Tokyo Metropo litan Museum of Photography,
Tokyo (1995), "Works by 25 Photographers in The
ir 20's", Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts,
Yamanashi (1995), "Innovatio n in Japanese Photography
in the 1960's", Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photo
graphy, Tokyo (1991), "Beyond Japan : A Photo Theatre",
Barbican Art Gallery , London (1991), "Photographs
in Japan 1955-1965",Yamaguchi Prefectural Muse um
of Art, Yamaguchi (1991), "Eye of deja-vu", Heineken
Village Gallery, Tok yo (1990), "Photographie Japonaise",
Provincial Museum, Netherlands (1989), "Eight Japanese
Photographers", P.G.I. (1988), "Japon des Avant-Gardes
1910- 1970", Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1986),
"L'Art Japonaise du XXeme Siec le", Centre Georges
Pompidou, Paris (1986), "The Works with Polaroid
20x24", Shibuya Seibu Seed Hall, Tokyo (1986), "Paris,
New York, Tokyo", Tsukuba Mus eum of Photography
1985, Ibaraki (1985), "Japan: A Self-Portrait",
Internati onal Center of Photography, New York (1979),
"VIVO: Contemporary Photography ", Santa Barbara
Museum of Art, Santa Barbara (1978), "Neue Fotografie
aus J apan", Kulturhaus der Stadt, Graz (1976-77),
"New Japanese Photography", Mus eum of Modern Art,
New York (1974), "Contemporary Japanese Photographs",
Nat ional Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (1963), "Non",
Matsuya Department Store, G inza, Tokyo (1962),
"10 PhotographersÉÜ Eyes", Konishiroku Photo Gallery,
Gin za, Tokyo (1957)
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| Public Collections |
| The National Museum
of Modern Art, Tokyo; Tokyo Metropoli tan Museum of
Photography, Tokyo; Kushiro Art Museum, Kushiro; Kawasaki
City Museum, Kawasaki; Kiyosato Museum of Photographic
Arts, Yamanashi; Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art,
Yamaguchi; Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo; Tok yo
Institute of Polytechnic, Tokyo; Nihon University, Tokyo;
Museum of Moder n Art, New York, U.S.A.; Center for
Creative Photography, University of Ariz ona, Tucson,
U. S. A.; The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton,
U. S . A.; Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France;
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France |
| Publication |
| The Globe Theater,
Self-published (1998), Kikuji Kawada (Japane se Photographers
33), Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo (1998), The Last Cosmology,
491, Tokyo (1995), Los Caprichos ,
Self-published (19 86), Nude ,
Shincho Sha, Tokyo (1984), Ludwig II Collection
Self-published (1984), Cosmos of the D ream King, Ludwig
II, Asahi Sonorama, Tokyo (1979), Sacr oron Sha, Tokyo(1971),
The Map, Bijutsushuppan Sha, Tokyo (1965) |
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