Tsukiji Hitoshi

Hitoshi Tsukiji (b. 1947) enrolled at the Tokyo College of Photography (now Tokyo Polytechnic University) in 1965 and began working as a photographer around 1968. In 1979, together with photography historian Ryuichi Kaneko and others, he founded Camera Works and began publishing the magazine Camera Works Tokyo as a counterweight to mass-market photography magazines. He made his photo book debut in 1975 with the book Vertical, (Domain). In 1984, he published his best-known work, Shashinzo, a rigorous search for the photograph as pure image, independent of its subject matter. The series won him the Newcomer's Award of the Photographic Society of Japan. Between 1983 and 1984, he produced a series of 4x5 Polaroids called Mother Police City, which treated artificial urban scenes as a contemporary form of natural landscape.

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