Photographer Kazutaka Narahara dies at 88.
Kazutaka Narahara, one of the leading post-war photographers in Japan and abroad, died of heart failure on the 19th. I was 88 years old.
Ms. Narahara was born in Fukuoka Prefecture and opened a solo exhibition `` Human Land '' in 1956, a graduate student, shooting people living in harsh land on Gunkanjima in Nagasaki and Sakurajima in Kagoshima and debuted as a photographer. did.
The opening of the exhibition, "Kingdom," opened a new post-war photographic expression with works of people living in prisons and monasteries, and was awarded the Japan Photography Critics Association Newcomer Award.
After that, he moved to Europe and the United States, and gained a number of awards in Japan and abroad, winning numerous awards for works shot using various techniques. He was awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 1996 and the Medal with Small Ribbon in Asahi in 2006.
The work has had a profound effect on the Japanese photographic world, and last year, the "Human Land" was exhibited at the Nagasaki Prefectural Museum of Art, and at the Setagaya Art Museum in Tokyo, an exhibition introducing works taken in Spain in the 1960s. A meeting is being held.
According to the people involved, Mr. Narahara had been receiving medical treatment for a long time, and died of heart failure in Tokyo on the evening of the 19th. I was 88 years old.