Yasuzō Nojima

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]

Nojima began studying at Keio University in 1906, and began taking photographs two years later. 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.^[3]

He became a member of the Japan Photographic Society in 1928.^[3]

References

1. (Japanese) Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, editor. 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers (『日本写真家事典』 Nihon shashinka jiten). Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN 4-473-01750-8
2. Philip Charrier, "Nojima Yasuzō's Primitivist Eye: 'Nude' and 'Natural' in Early Japanese Art Photography," Japanese Studies, Vol. 26, No. 1 (May 2006): 47-68.
3. C. A. Xuan Mai Ardia. "Yasuzō Nojima: The Complex Nudity of Ordinary Form". theculturetrip.com. Retrieved 25 October 2014.