1933 Born in Yonezawa, Yamagata.

1954 Graduates from Tokyo College of Photography.

1956 First solo exhibition, American Girl in Tokyo, achieves great success.

1957-59 Invited to take part in Junin-no-me (Eyes of Ten), an exhibition held by Tatsuo Fukushima in Tokyo showcasing new photographic approaches and aiming to “sever ties with established photography”.

1960 Founds Vivo with Kawada Kikuji, Sato Akira, Tanno Akira, Narahara Ikko and Tomatsu Shomei. The group was short-lived (it disbanded in 1959) but had a profound impact on photography in Japan at the time.

1961-63 Shoots a series of portraits of the novelist Mishima Yukio forming the series Barakei (Killed by Roses) which is first published in 1963.

1965-68 Collaborates on the Kamaitachi series with the founder of Butoh dance, Hijikata Tatsumi,. The series is taken in the region from which Hosoe and Hijikata originate.

1975 Offered professorship at Tokyo College of Photography and helps to begin their fine art photography collection.

1976-84 Works on a series of photographs of the architecture of Gaudi, resulting in the publication of The Cosmos of Gaudi, including drawings and poems by Joan Miró.


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

1968 Kamaitachi: An Extravagantly Tragic Comedy, Nikon Salon, Tokyo and Osaka.

1969 Man and Woman, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

1990 Eikoh Hosoe: Meta, Houston Foto Fest.

2006 Spherical Dualism of Photography: The World of Eikoh Hosoe, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.