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一高 奈良原

Ikko Narahara was a Japanese photographer. His work is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Background

Ikko Narahara was born on November 3, 1931 in Fukuoka, Japan.

Education

Ikko Narahara studied law at Chuo University (graduating in 1954) and, influenced by statues of Buddha at Nara, art history at the graduate school of Waseda University, from which he received a Master of Arts in 1959.

Career

Ikko Narahara was a self-employed photographer. He had his first solo exhibition, Ningen no tochi (Human land), at the Matsushima Gallery (Ginza) in 1956. In this he showed Kurokamimura, a village on Sakurajima. The exhibition brought instant renown. In his second exhibition, "Domains", at the Fuji Photo Salon in 1958, he showed a Trappist monastery in Tobetsu (Hokkaidō), and a women's prison in Wakayama.

In the meantime, Ikko Narahara had shown his works in the first (1957) of three exhibitions titled The Eyes of Ten; exhibited in all three, and went on to co-found the short-lived Vivo collective. From 1962 to 1965 he stayed in Paris, and after a time in Tokyo, from 1970 to 1974 in New York City. During this time he took part in a class by the American photographer Diane Arbus.

From 1999 to 2005, Ikko Narahara was a professor at the Graduate School of Kyushu Sangyo University (Fukuoka).

Achievements

  • In 1967 Ikko Narahara won the Photographer of the Year Award from the Japan Photo Critics Association. He won numerous other prizes.

Works

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