Photography in Japan

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 60. Chapters: Marc Riboud, Chris Steele-Perkins, Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, Felice Beato, Adolfo Farsari, Ed van der Elsken, Pierre Rossier, Cecil Beaton, List of Japanese photographers, Jindrich streit, Joe Rosenthal, Bernard Hoffman, Herbert Ponting, W. Eugene Smith, Nicholas DeVore III, Fosco Maraini, W. K. Burton, Francis Haar, Lee Friedlander, William Klein, Kotaro Iizawa, Burt Glinn, Horace Bristol, Asahi Camera, Paul Graham, Jacob Aue Sobol, Bruce Gilden, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Higashikawa Prize, Stillfried & Andersen, Michael Kenna, Yodobashi Camera, Negretti and Zambra, Wayne F. Miller, Shoji Yamagishi, Kimura Ihei Award, J. L. C. Pompe van Meerdervoort, Pink Box: Inside Japan's Sex Clubs, Kazuo Nishii, Werner Bischof, Photo City Sagamihara, Joe O'Donnell, Baron Raimund von Stillfried, Doi, Domon Ken Award, Ina Nobuo Award, Gueorgui Pinkhassov, Emmanuelle Riva, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, PhotoCON, Wilhelm J. Burger, Miki Jun Award, Bic Camera, Orrin Freeman, Tokyo Polytechnic University, Tong Cheong, Nikon Salon, Nippon Camera, Camera Mainichi, Domon Ken Photography Museum, Hong Cheong. Excerpt: Christopher Horace Steele-Perkins (born 28 July 1947) is a British photographer and member of Magnum Photos, best known for his depiction of Africa, Afghanistan, England, and Japan. Steele-Perkins was born in Rangoon, Burma in 1947 to a British father and a Burmese mother; but his father left his mother and took the boy to England at the age of two. He went to Christ's Hospital and for one year studied chemistry at the University of York before leaving for a stay in Canada. Returning to Britain, he joined the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where he served as photographer and picture editor for a student magazine. After graduating in psychology in 1970 he started to work as a freelance photographer, specializing in the theatre, while he also lectured in psychology. By 1971, Steele-Perkins had moved to London and become a full-time photographer, with particular interest in urban issues, including poverty. He went to Bangladesh in 1973 to take photographs for relief organizations; some of this work was exhibited in 1974 at the Camerawork Gallery (London). In 1973-74 he taught photography at the Stanhope Institute and the North East London Polytechnic. In 1975, Steele-Perkins joined the Exit Photography Group with the photographers Nicholas Battye and Paul Trevor, and there continued his examination of urban problems: Exit's earlier booklet Down Wapping had led to a commission by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to increase the scale of their work, and in six years they produced 30,000 photographs as well as many hours of taped interviews. This led to the 1982 book Survival Programmes. Steele-Perkins' work included depiction from 1975 to 1977 of street festivals, and prints from London Street Festivals were bought by the British Council and exhibited with Homer Sykes' Once a Year and Patrick Ward's Wish You Were Here; Steele-Perkins' depiction of Notting Hill has been described as being in the vein of Tony Ray-Jones. Steele-Perkins became an associate of the Frenc