Life & Education

1940 Born in Tokyo, Japan
1962 Graduated from Tokyo College of Photography, Japan
1967-70 Worked as the photographer for the Tenjo Sajiki theater troup founded by Shuji Terayama
1971 Become a freelance photographer
2019 Died March 7, Chiba, Japan

 

Museum Exhibitions

2013         Issei Suda: Nagi no Hira /Fragments of Calm - Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
2008 Self/Other - National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
2003 The History of Japanese Photography - Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
1995 TOKYO/City of Photos - Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
1991 Japanese Photography in the 1970s - Memories Frozen in Time - Metropolitan Museum of 
  Photography, Tokyo, Japan
1979 Japan: A Self-Portrait - International Center of Photography, New York, USA
1978 Neue Fotografie aus Japan - Kulturhaus der Stadt Graz, Austria
1974 Fifteen Photographers Today - National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

 

Awards

2019 31th Award of Society of Photography for Fragment of Everyday Life
2014 Photographer Award from the Photographic Society of Japan for Nagi no hira-fragments of calm
1997 16th Ken Domon Award for Human Memory
  16th Domon Ken Award for Ningen no Kioku
1985 Domestic Photographer Award in the Higashikawa Photography Awards for Fragment of Everyday Life
  Inaugural Higashikawa Domestic Artist Award for Nichijo Tanpen and others
1983

Annual Award from the Photographic Society of Japan for Monogusa Syui

1979

 Newcomer’s Award from the Photographic Society of Japan for Fushi Kaden

 

PUBLICATIONS (selected)

2013 Tokyokei, Nazraeli Press/Zen Foto Gallery
  The Journey to Osorezan, Zen Foto Gallery
  Waga Tokyo 100, Tokyo: Zen Foto Gallery
  Nagi no hira / Fragments of Calm, Toseisha
2012 Sparrow Island, Nazraeli Press
  Fushi Kaden, Akio Nagasawa Pubishing
2011 The Work of a Lifetime: Photographs 1968-2006, Only Photography
  Kado no Tabakoya made no Tabi, Place M
2007 Minyou Sanga, Toseisha
2000 Akai Hana, Wide
1996 Ningen no Kioku, Creo
1991 Inu no Hana: Kimagure, Shashin, Sanpo, IBC
1979 Waga-Tokyo 100, Nikon Salon Books 5, Nikkor Club
1978 Fushi Kaden, Sonorama Shashin Sensho 16, Asahi Sonorama

 

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (selected)

France

Paris Museum of Photography

 

Germany

Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg 

 

Japan

Tokyo Polytechnic University Higashikawa Town Yokohama

Kawasaki City Museum

Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Osaka Art University

Miyagi Prefectural Museum

Ken Domon Memorial Museum

Yokohama Museum of Art

Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi

 

USA

Princeton University

Center for Creative Photography

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

The J. Paul Getty Museum