Background
Issei Suda was born Kazumasa Suda on April 24, 1940, in Kanda, Tokyo, Japan.
5 Chome-28-20 Hakusan, Bunkyo City, Tokyo 112-0001, Japan
Suda first studied at Toyo University but dropped out in 1961.
2 Chome-2-32 Minowacho, Kohoku Ward, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-0051, Japan
Sud entered the Tokyo College of Photography, from which he graduated in 1962.
須田 一政
Issei Suda was born Kazumasa Suda on April 24, 1940, in Kanda, Tokyo, Japan.
Suda first studied at Toyo University but dropped out in 1961. He received his first camera, a Rolleiflex, from his father when he entered the Tokyo College of Photography, from which he graduated in 1962.
In 1967 Suda began work as the stage and publicity photographer for Tenjo Sajiki, a theatrical troupe directed by poet-playwright Terayama Shuji. The troupe sought to express the mysterious side of everyday life, a theme that Suda continued to pursue after beginning his freelance career in 1971. He began traveling throughout Japan, capturing people on city streets and at traditional festivals, and the patterns and textures he would find in his surroundings. These travels have resulted in such celebrated series as “Fushi Kaden” (1978) and “Human Memory” (1996), full of extraordinary, surprising, and surreal moments that Suda has an uncanny knack for pinpointing with his camera. His work began to appear in photography magazines, earning him early recognition in Japan and abroad.
In his most famous series of work, Fushi Kaden from 1976, Suda succeeded in capturing the extraordinary that exists within the ordinary. He received high praise for these photographs and ever since he has continued to publish works that focus on familiar landscapes, commonplace festivals or customs, etc. He is ranked, not only in Japan but also abroad, together with other photographers whose style presents a uniquely Japanese development of the personal viewpoint, some of his work receiving attention for being peculiarly subjective, while simultaneously providing a new outlook on the standard images of Japan or Tokyo from an ethnological viewpoint.
Shinden, Adachi-ku
1981Iiwaki-shi, Ibaraki
1992Higashi-Oi, Shinagawa-ku
1992Yushima Tokyo from Anonymous Men and Women
1977Yokote Akita from Minyo Sanga
1979Ayame matsuri Mizumoto-Park Katsushika Tokyo from Fushikaden
1976Yanaka Tokyo from Anonymous Men and Women
1977Cicadas Songs in Ou
1972Miuramisaki Kanagawa from Fushikaden
1977Monogusa Shui from Oi Tokyo
1982Soma Fukushima from Minyo Sanga
1979Yushima Tokyo from Anonymous Men and Women
1977Akita Cicadas Songs in Ou
1972Nagano Cicadas Songs in Ou
1972Kanda Tokyo from 'Summer...'
1969Tokyo from 'Passing Summer'
1969Ume Matsuri Ogose Saitama from 'Fushikaden'
1976Asakusa-Jinja, Taito-ku
1976Asakusa-Jinja, Taito-ku
1981Nishiogu, Arakawa-ku
1981Kitakojiya, Ota-ku
1981Chichibu, Saitama
1972Amanohashibate, Kyoto
1979Onagawa, Miyagi
1977Ginza, Chuo-ku
1981Ina, Nagano
1979Shibadaimon, Minato-ku
1977Akabanedai, Kita-ku
1981Narihiya, Sumida-ku
1977Yanagawa-shi, Fukuoka
1979Nishinippori, Arakawa-ku
1980Nishinari-ku Tengachaya
1978Miyazu, Kyoto
1979Tsukudohachiman-cho, Shinjuku-ku
1984Gujoshirotori, Gifu
1983Gujohachiman, Gifu
1978There is no information on whether Issei Suda was ever married or had any children.