Rosō Fukuhara was a Japanese photographer noted for a strikingly modern approach to pictorialism.
Background
He was born in Ginza on 16 January 1892, as Nobutatsu Fukuhara (福原 信辰, Fukuhara Nobutatsu), son of Arinobu Fukuhara (福原 有信, Fukuhara Arinobu), the head of Apothecary Shiseidō (which in 1927 would be incorporated as Shiseidō) and Toku Fukuhara (福原 とく, Fukuhara Toku).
Education
Fukuhara studied French at Keio University (Tokyo) from 1911 to 1917.
Career
His photographic activities were amateur but rigorous. His photographs employed both shallow focus and rather incongruous juxtapositions to great effect. Half of a photograph by Fukuhara might be taken up by corrugated metal fencing.
Fukuhara died on 29 September 1946 in Nagano.