Kishin Shinoyama

Shinoyama teaching (workshop in S. France, 1975).

Kishin Shinoyama (篠山紀信, Shinoyama Kishin^?, b. Shinjuku, Tokyo, 3 December 1940) is a Japanese photographer.

Shinoyama graduated from Nihon University. He worked with the Light Publicity agency while still a student, and freelanced after graduation.

Shinoyama has put out a large number of books of photographs of girls, dressed, mostly undressed, and nude.

He is married to Saori Minami and their son is actor Akinobu Shinoyama.

[edit] Books

This list is very incomplete.

(Japanese) Kishin no teitaku: Sā Jon Sōn Bijutsukan (貴紳の邸宅：サー・ジョン・ソーン美術館^?) / Sir John Soane's Museum. Tokyo: Rokuyōsha, 1989. ISBN 9784897370118. Text by Arata Isozaki. A detailed study of Sir John Soane's Museum (London).
Santa Fe. Tokyo: Asahi Shuppansha, 1991. ISBN 4255910464. Rie Miyazawa, nude. (See Santa Fe.)
(English) The Painter's House: Balthus at the Grand Chalet. Te Neues, 2000. ISBN 978-3823854722. Photographs of the extraordinarily large house of the Balthus family, and Balthus himself, his wife and their daughter.
Kissin' My Puppy. Tokyo: Rasukaru, 2005. ISBN 978-4902388053. Japan's starlets (アイドルタレント, aidoru tarento^?) and their dogs. The minimal text is in Japanese.

(Japanese) Nihon nūdo meisakushū (日本ヌード名作集, Japanese nudes). Camera Mainichi bessatsu. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1982. Pp.24–25, 222–27 show nudes by Shinoyama.
Nihon shashin no tenkan: 1960 nendai no hyōgen (日本写真の転換：1960時代の表現) / Innovation in Japanese Photography in the 1960s. Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1991. Exhibition catalogue, text in Japanese and English. Pp.124–29 show nudes by Shinoyama.

==Works^[vague]==

Most Promising Young Photographer Prize (日本批評家協会新人賞, Nihon Hihyōka Kyōkai Shinjinshō^?) in 1966.
Mainichi Art Prize (毎日芸術賞, Mainichi Geijutsushō^?) in 1980.
Golden Eye Award in 1998.