Tadayuki Naitoh
Tadayuki Naitoh is a Japanese photographer known for his photographs of jazz musicians and of Africa.
Naitoh was born in Asakusa, Tokyo in 1941. He graduated from a photography course at in 1964. In 1970 he set up his own company, Photohouse OM.
From an early age he became interested in jazz and photography, and he began photographing jazz musicians in performance in his early 20s. In 1970, he published a photo book on the trumpet player Terumasa Hino. He travelled widely in Africa, Asia and America, leading to a number of unusual and arresting images: Zebra, a collection of his photographs of zebras, was published in 1988, and other works have used design themes from zebras, often in collages. More recently he has moved into photographing lotuses.
Outside Japan, Naitoh is perhaps best known for his photographs of Miles Davis, which include those used on the sleeves of the 1976 albums Pangaea and Agharta, and a limited edition CD release of Black Beauty: Live at the Fillmore West. Naitoh has also produced recordings.
Naitoh's works are held in the permanent collections of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and Kawasaki City Museum.
Exhibits/Shows
- "Portrait of New Orleans", Seibu Department Stores, Ikebukuro, 1972.
- Exhibit in Gallery Min, Tokyo, May 18 - June 13, 1991. Catalogue: Tadayuki Naito: Sakura.
- In 2002-2003, The Japan Foundation and The New York Foundation for the Arts financed Mother/Child, a multi-media performance featuring choreography, video, photography and stage art. Naitō was one of the artists featured.
- From May to July 2007 there was a retrospective of his work in the Canon Open Gallery in Shinagawa, Tokyo.
Book publications
- Hino Terumasa no sekai / Alone alone alone. Tokyo: Sankei Shinbunsha, 1970.
- Nabesan: Tokyo-Dar es Salaam-New York. Tokyo: Tairyūsha, 1977. Afurika no tabi. Tokyo: Photohouse OM, 1980. Black and white photographs of Africa: landscapes, animals, people. Minimal text.
- Chikyū fūzoku mandara. Kobe: Kobe Shinbun Sōgō Shuppan Sentā, 1981.
- Afurika no uta / The Song of Africa. Tokyo: Shōbunsha, 1982.. Photographs, mostly in color, of Africa. Despite the English title, the text is in Japanese only.
- Zebra. Tokyo: Jōhō Sentā, 1988.. Photographs of zebras, zebra motifs, collages of zebra motifs, etc. Text in Japanese and English.
- Sakura-Cosm. Tokyo: Switch Shoseki Shuppanbu, 1990.. Text in Japanese and English.
- Shinkuro baibusu / Synchro Vibes. Tokyo: JICC Shuppankyoku, 1991.. Essays on photography.
- Waga kokoro no Afurika. With Lyall Watson. Tokyo: Chikuma Shobō, 1992.
- Uchū no katachi, Nihon no niwa. Tokyo: Sekai Bunkasha, 1998..
- Iro wa koto no ha / Feel the Colors. Tokyo: Kentōsha, 2003..
- Burū rōtasu. Tokyo: Hyōgensha, 2005..
Compact discs
- Masailand
- Dry and Wet
- Night Trip
- Timeless
- Zebra
Video/multimedia productions
- Nō no shima
- Zebra Fantasy
- The Song of Africa
- Kyō no niwa
- Mandala Cosmology
- ''Zebra''