Akira Kinoshita
Akira Kinoshita was a Japanese photographer who specialized in photographing musicians.
Kinoshita was born in Suwa, Nagano, on 16 July 1936. He graduated from Nihon Fukushi University, and then worked for Chūnichi Shinbun and Hakuhodo. From the 1970s, he has published collections of photographs of musicians and other music-related photobooks.
Kinoshita's work is held in the permanent collection of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.
Books
- World of Seiji Ozawa, 1981
- 1984 Musician of the World
- 1992: maestro Herbert von Karajan]
- Watanabe Akira 雄
- Asahina Takashi ~ 2002's] art is the best longevity
- Carlos Kleiber
- Taking Takemitsu
- Maestro
- Journey to the Verdi
- Ishi. Portrait with a Stone. Tokyo: Asukashinsa Publishing Co., 2009.
Major exhibitions
- In 1971 "On Stage ~ Sound Landscape"
- 1976 "Musician of the World"
- 1995 "sound picture"
- 1996 "The perfection of sound"
- 1998 "A Musical Journey in Vienna"
- In 1999 "Opera House"
- 2002 "master musicians in the world ~ 100"
- 2002 "Musician of the 20th century"
- 2005 "Masters of the World ~ 101"
- 2006 "photo exhibition, Akira Kinoshita musicians in the world"
- "Journey to the Verdi"
- Akira Kinoshita Photo Exhibition "master musician in the world ~"