The son of a Buddhist monk, destined to follow in his father’s footsteps, Kishin Shinoyama took a different path and decided to study photography at the Nihon University of Tokyo from 1961 to 1963. He became an independent photographer from 1968, working initially in the domains of fashion, sport, the press and advertising, and was elected Photographer of the Year in 1970 by the Union of Japanese photographers. He is now generally considered to be one of his generation’s most important Japanese photographers. He owes some of his reputation to the famous kiss photograph of John Lennon and Yoko Ono on the cover of their album Double Fantasy. But he is known, above all, for his particularly inventive photographs of nudes.
Description: Portfolio
7 original signed photographs (Dye Destruction prints)
Case made of cardboard
37 x 36 x 2,3 cm
Limited edition of 15 copies + 5 H.C
November 2010
