Publisher/朝日ソノラマ

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"Naked Portraits (Signed)" is a collection of works by Japanese photographer Shotaro Akiyama (1920-2003). Akiyama was one of the photographers active from the postwar period through the 1950s, before the breakthroughs of photographers like Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Ikko Narahara, and Shomei Tomatsu 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 (Nikakai 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 issue of the "Sonorama Photo Selection" (27 issues in total), a series of solo collections by prominent photographers active primarily since the postwar period, and features Akiyama's major nude works. Signed .