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__NOTOC__ was a Japanese photographer known for his photographs of still lifes and nudes, and also a writer of practical books about photography.〔Where not otherwise noted, the biographical facts are from the article by Moriyama and that by ''Nihon no shashinka.'' Where the two disagree, it follows the latter (and later).〕 Fukuda was born on 11 January 1899 in Nakanoseki (later part of Hōfu), Yamaguchi (Japan). He moved to Tokyo in 1920, and worked at Takachiho Seisakujo (later renamed Olympus), where he worked making thermometers and developed an interest in photography, buying a Vest Pocket Kodak. The 1923 Kantō earthquake impelled him to leave the company and move to Kansai. Fukuda ran a photographic studio in Sakai and Osaka, but this failed. He then worked as an editorial assistant on Hakuyō Fuchikami's periodical ''Hakuyō.'' A photograph he took in 1925, shown in an exhibition (titled , ''Nihon Shashin Bijutsutenrankai'') at Daimaru department store (Osaka) and elsewhere, won the Ilford Diamond Prize the following year. Fukuda then worked as a commercial photographer in Sakai and Hiroshima. Fukuda moved back to Tokyo in 1933, where, influenced by Modernist trends from Europe (particularly Moholy-Nagy), he pursued a successful career as an advertising photographer. (Other than for a year at Hōfu toward the end of the war, Fukuda stayed in Tokyo for the rest of his life.) A series of photographs in ''Asahi Camera'' starting in 1936 and including portraits of Setsuko Hara and Takako Irie was very popular, and the next year Fukuda turned this into a book on photographing women that became a best-seller. After the war, Fukuda published collections of nude studies and more books on photographic technique. He also experimented with color.〔According to Hasegawa, he "was the first to attempt color photography in Japan".〕 The value he placed on the expression of beauty rendered his work old fashioned with the postwar wave of realism led by photographers such as Ken Domon,〔Hasegawa says he was "relegated to the 'rear guard'".〕 and the trends that followed this. In 1974 he was not even among one hundred living photographers profiled in a ''Camera Mainichi'' supplement.〔''Shashinka 100nin: Kao to sakuhin'' () / ''100 photographers, profiles and photographs,'' Special 20th anniversary supplement to ''Camera Mainichi,'' 1974.〕 However, he contributed one volume (''Shōka'' / ''Psalm'') to the popular series "Sonorama Shashin Sensho" in 1979; in an afterword to this, Akira Hasegawa writes: There are no photographers of women in Japan even today who have not been influenced by Fukuda in one way or another. Many techniques commonly used today were developed by Fukuda, a fact which has been forgotten. Fukuda continued working in his old age. He died on 26 December 1991. The estimation of his work has since increased, and it is often anthologized in collections of Modernist and mid-century works. A major exhibition of his work was held in the Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art in 1994. Works by Fukuda are in the permanent collections of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Yokohama Museum of Art, and Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art.〔National Museum of Modern Art, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art: Matsumoto, ''Nihon no bijutsukan to shashin korekushon,'' pp. 39, 73, 160 respectively.〕 ==Books by Fukuda== * ''Genzō no jissai'' (). ''Asahi Camera'' Sōsha 14. Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1937. * ''Onna no utsushikata'' (〔In newer orthography .〕) / ''Photokunst von Frauen.'' Tokyo: Ars, 1937. Despite the German-language alternative title, all in Japanese. * ''Haru no shashin-jutsu'' (). Tokyo: Ars, 1938. * ''Watakushi no shashinshū: Sakuga no jissai'' () / ''Meine Foto-bilder.'' Tokyo: Ars, 1938. Despite the German-language alternative title embossed in the cover, all in Japanese. Fifty-eight pages of black and white plates, followed by 84 pages of commentary and advice on photography. * ''Haru no shashinshū'' () / ''Spring Photography''. Tokyo: Ars, 1939. * ''Onna no utsushikata: zoku'' (〔In newer orthography .〕). Tokyo: Ars, 1939. * ''Seibutsu shashin no tsukurikata'' (). Ars Shashin Bunko 18. Tokyo: Ars, 1939. How to photograph still lifes. * ''Ginza'' (, Ginza). Tokyo: Genkōsha, 1941. With an essay by Tama Morita (). * ''Ushi kau shōgakkō'' (). Tokyo: Genkōsha, 1941. * ''Shuppatsu'' (,〔In modern script, .〕 Departure). Tokyo: Kōgasō, 1942. A miscellany of photographs: nature, women, still lifes, etc. * ''Jingu Gaien'' (). Tokyo: Nihon Shashin Kōgeisha, 1942. * ''Rafu gotai'' (). Tokyo: Ivuningusutā-sha, 1946. * ''Onna no utsushikata'' (〔). Tokyo: Seiusha, 1947. A booklet; not the same as the identically titled book published ten years earlier. Photographs of women, clothed and nude. * ''Hana to rafu to'' (, Flowers and nude women) / ''Nude et fleur.'' Tokyo: Ivuningusutā-sha, 1947. Flowers, nude women, their combination, etc. Despite the alternative title, in Japanese only. * ''Shashin geijutsu'' (). Tokyo: Kōgasō, 1949. * ''Iro to hikari no geijutsu: Fukuda Katsuji tennenshoku shashin sakuhinshū'' (). Tokyo: Ondorisha, 1951. * ''Mite wakaru shashin no utsushikata'' (). Tokyo: Onodorisha, 1951. * ''Watakushi-tachi no kimono'' (). Seikatsu Gurabia Sōsho. Tokyo: Ondorisha, 1951. * ''Ginza'' (). Tokyo: Ars, 1952. * ''Onna no utsushikata'' (). Tokyo: Ars, 1955. Special issue of ''Camera'', July. * ''Kamera no sekai'' (). Zusetsu Bunko 32. Tokyo: Kaiseisha, 1957. * ''Atarashiki miwaku'' (). ''Nippon Camera'' rinji zōkan. Tokyo: Nippon Camera-sha, 1958. Women (mostly nudes). * ''Kyōto'' () / ''Kyoto.'' Tokyo: Iwasaki Shoten, 1958. * ''Bi no tabiji'' (). Tokyo: Futsūsha, 1962. * ''Shōka'' () / ''Psalm.'' Sonorama Shashin Sensho 19. Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama, 1979. Women (some of them nude), still lifes, and photographs from Fukuda's 1955 travel in Italy. No captions, but with some text in English as well as Japanese. * ''Shashinka Fukuda Katsuji-ten: Kokō no modanisuto'' () / ''Katsuji Fukuda.'' Yamaguchi: Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, 1994. Catalogue of a major exhibition of Fukuda's work held at the Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art in 1994. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Katsuji Fukuda」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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