Kishin Shinoyama
1940 b Tokyo, 3 Dec

1961-63 He studied photography at Nihon University, Tokyo, also working at this time as a freelance photographer for the Light Publicity Company

1968 He made his debut as a photographer with his one-man shows Tanjo (\'Birth\') at the Nikon Salon

1970 Nudes, held at the Matsuzakaya Department Store, Tokyo, a series of nude portraits set against large scale backgrounds of nature.
Also published Nude, and pioneered a new style of artistic nude photography

1979 His photographs of body tattoos combine nude studies with documentary photography- the tattoos are particularly Japanese in subject matter.

Books

Hareta-hi (Sunny Day; 1975)

Shinorama Nippon (1989)

Tokyo Mirai Seiki (1992)

BALTHUS (1993)

House of Mishima Yukio (1995).