Publisher/朝日ソノラマ

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"Naked Portraits" is a collection of works by Japanese photographer Shotaro Akiyama (1920-2003). Akiyama was one of the most active photographers from the postwar period through the 1950s, before the breakthroughs of Ishimoto Yasuhiro, Narahara Ikko, and Tomatsu Shomei in the 1960s. His signature works include portraits of famous people, female nudes, and still lifes of flowers. He established a photography studio shortly after the war with Takamasa Inamura, also renowned for his nude photography. In the 1950s, he became a founding member of the Nikakai (Nika Society) alongside his contemporaries Shoji Otake, Yuji Hayata, and Tadahiko Hayashi, and made significant contributions to the promotion and development of postwar Japanese photography. This is the 23rd volume of the "Sonorama Photo Selection" (27 volumes in total), a series of solo collections by prominent photographers active primarily since the postwar period, and features Akiyama's major nude works.