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is a Japanese photographer. ==Career== Kurata graduated from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1968.〔1968: Iizawa, ''Tōkyō Shashin,'' p.260; also ''Sanjūroku fotogurafāzu,'' p.11. According to the blurb on the front and back flaps of Kurata's ''Japan,'' 1976.〕 He taught in secondary school and worked in oils, printmaking, and experimental movies.〔''Sanjūroku fotogurafāzu,'' p.11.〕 He practised under Daidō Moriyama in an independent photography workshop in 1976.〔Wākushoppu Shashin-juku, taught by Shōmei Tōmatsu, Nobuyoshi Araki, Masahisa Fukase, Eikoh Hosoe, Noriaki Yokosuka, as well as Moriyama. Sources: Iizawa, p.143; ''Sanjūroku fotogurafāzu,'' p.11.〕 Kurata won the fifth Kimura Ihei Award in 1980 for his first book, ''Flash Up.'' For the black-and-white photographs here, Kurata used flash and a medium format camera,〔The array of specific hardware used is listed at the back of the book; it does include a 35mm SLR camera as well.〕 resulting in a detailed portrait of a world of ''bōsōzoku,'' gangsters, rightists, strippers, transvestites, and so on: as Parr and Badger point out, these are old subjects; but in his "highly polished, detailed" work, Kurata "has an unerring instinct for pictures that suggest stories". ''Photo Cabaret'' and ''80's Family'' continued in this direction. This Japanese work of Kurata's is anthologized in his later volume ''Japan.'' Kurata won the PSJ award in 1992. A long stay in Mongolia in 1994 led to the book ''Toransu Ajia,'' which continued color work of the Asian mainland started with ''Dai-Ajia.'' In 1999 Kurata's book ''Japan'' won the Kodansha Publishing Culture Award () for a work of photography.〔(List of past award winners ), Kodansha. Accessed 7 December 2009.〕 Prints of Kurata's photographs are in the permanent collections of ICP (New York), the Brooklyn Museum, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.〔TPO Photo School profile.〕 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「Seiji Kurata」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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