Midorikawa Yoichi

Yoichi Midorikawa (1915–2001) was a photographer best known for his series of seascapes of the Seto Inland Sea. He began taking photographs while working as a dentist. In 1940, he joined the Chugoku Photographers Group at the invitation of Ryosuke Ishizu. In 1945, just before the end of the war, he was drafted as a member of the military press corps. In 1947, he joined Ginryusha, a group of emerging photographers and editors, and received recognition for his nude photography. In 1956, he participated in the First International Subjective Photography Exhibition in Tokyo. In 1959, after traveling to eleven different countries, he began photographing his home, the Seto Inland Sea, in dramatic color images created using a variety of techniques. His intense use of color in works such as his 1962 photobook Seto Island Sea earned him the nickname “wizard of color.“

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