Akira Kinoshita

Akira Kinoshita (木之下 晃 Kinoshita Akira) (16 July 1936 – 12 January 2015) was a Japanese photographer who specialized in photographing musicians.[1]

Kinoshita was born in Suwa, Nagano, on 16 July 1936. He graduated from Nihon Fukushi University, and then worked for Chūnichi Shinbun and Hakuhodo. From the 1970s, he has published collections of photographs of musicians and other music-related photobooks.[2]

Kinoshita's work is held in the permanent collection of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.[2]

Books

Major exhibitions

References

  1. 音楽写真家の木之下晃さん死去 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. 19 January 2015. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  2. 1 2 Jinbo Kyōko (神保京子), "Kinoshita Akira", in Nihon shashinka jiten (日本写真家事典) / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers (Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000; ISBN 4-473-01750-8), p.109. (Japanese) Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese.



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