Domon Ken Award
Encyclopedia
| year | photographer | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1982 | Tadao Mitome Tadao Mitome is a renowned Japanese photographer.-References:*Nihon shashinka jiten / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN 4-473-01750-8. Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese.... |
| 2 | 1983 | Masatoshi Naitō Masatoshi Naito is a renowned Japanese photographer.-References:... |
| 3 | 1984 | Kazuyoshi Nomachi Kazuyoshi Nomachi is a renowned Japanese photographer.-External links:*... |
| 4 | 1985 | Tsuneo Enari Tsuneo Enari is a renowned Japanese photographer.- External links :*... |
| 5 | 1986 | Taku Aramasa Taku Aramasa Born in Tokyo on 15 August 1936, Aramasa moved with his family to Manchukuo in 1940. In 1948 he moved to Sakata, Yamagata. He graduated from in 1960, and set up a design company in which he was an art director, but became a freelance in 1970. He worked as a fashion photographer in Paris from 1973... |
| 6 | 1987 | Hiroshi Suga Hiroshi Suga Suga was born in Hakata, Fukuoka Prefecture, in 1945. He graduated in photography from Nihon University.He won the Domon Ken Award in 1987 for photographs of Bali and the Higashikawa Domestic Photographers Award in 1998 for photographs of Burma. He has been a professor at Nihon University.-Books by... |
| 7 | 1988 | Takeshi Nishikawa |
| 8 | 1989 | Ichirō Tsuda |
| 9 | 1990 | Manabu Miyazaki Manabu Miyazaki (photographer) Manabu Miyazaki , born in Nagano Prefecture in 1949, is a Japanese wildlife photographer.His work Fukurō / Ural Owl won the Domon Ken Award in 1990. In 1996 two of his books won the Kodansha Publishing Culture Award for a work of photography.-External links:... |
| 10 | 1991 | Bishin Jumonji Bishin Jumonji is a photographer who has done advertising, portrait, architectural, and other work.Jumonji was born in Yokohama on 4 March 1947. After studying at the Tokyo College of Photography he worked as an assistant to Kishin Shinoyama and went freelance in 1971, when he was the cameraman for advertisements... |
| 11 | 1992 | Kōichi Imaeda |
| 12 | 1993 | Hiromi Nagakura Hiromi Nagakura is a renowned Japanese photographer.In 2005 Nagakura's book Zabitto ikka, ie o tateru won the Kodansha Publishing Culture Award for a work of photography.-References:... |
| 13 | 1994 | Yoshikazu Minami Yoshikazu Minami is a renowned Japanese photographer.-References:*Nihon shashinka jiten / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN 4-473-01750-8. Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese.... |
| 14 | 1995 | Kiyoshi Sumiyoshi |
| 15 | 1996 | Katsumi Sunamori |
| 16 | 1997 | Issei Suda Issei Suda is a Japanese photographer.Born in Tokyo in 1940, Suda graduated from the Tokyo College of Photography in 1962. From 1967 to 1970 he worked as the cameraman of the theatrical group Tenjo Sajiki, under Shūji Terayama. He has worked as a freelance photographer since 1971. Suda is a professor at Osaka... |
| 17 | 1998 | Seiichi Motohashi Seiichi Motohashi is a renowned Japanese photographer.-References:*Nihon shashinka jiten / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN 4-473-01750-8. Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese.... |
| 18 | 1999 | Takeshi Mizukoshi Takeshi Mizukoshi is a renowned Japanese photographer.-References:*Nihon shashinka jiten / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN 4-473-01750-8. Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese.... |
| 19 | 2000 | Osamu Kanemura Osamu Kanemura is a renowned Japanese photographer.-References:... |
| 20 | 2001 | Yoshino Ōishi Yoshino Oishi is a renowned Japanese photojournalist.Ōishi was born in Suginami-ku, Tokyo on 28 May 1944. Seeing Melanesian art while at Nihon University had a big effect on her, as did a visit to Vietnam and Cambodia in 1966. After graduating in photography, she became a freelance photojournalist, working in... |
| 21 | 2002 | Toshiya Momose |
| 22 | 2003 | Ryūichi Hirokawa |
| 23 | 2004 | Hiroh Kikai Hiroh Kikai is a Japanese photographer best known within Japan for three series of monochrome photographs: scenes of buildings in and close to Tokyo, portraits of people in the Asakusa area of Tokyo, and rural and town life in India... |
| 24 | 2005 | Eiichirō Sakata |
| 25 | 2006 | Hideaki Uchiyama |
| 26 | 2007 | Ikuo Nakamura Ikuo Nakamura -References:*Nihon shashinka jiten / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN 4-473-01750-8. English language title; Japanese text.... |
| 27 | 2008 | Hiromi Tsuchida Hiromi Tsuchida is a renowned Japanese photographer.Tsuchida has produced several collections of photographs of the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. He has produced many influential photo books such as Zokushin, counting the sand and new counting the sand and The Berlin Wall... |
| 28 | 2009 | Mitsuhiko Imamori Mitsuhiko Imamori is a renowned self-taught Japanese photographer. His work often involves insects but he is a naturalist at heart.-References:... |
| 30 | 2010 | Ryūichirō Suzuki |
The Domon Ken Award (土門拳賞, Domon-Ken-shō) is one of Japan's most celebrated photographic awards.
The award was started in 1981 by the Mainichi Newspapers to mark the 110th birthday of the Mainichi Shimbun
Mainichi Shimbun
The is one of the major newspapers in Japan, published by .-History:The history of the Mainichi Shimbun begins with founding of two papers during the Meiji period. The Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun was founded first, in 1872. The Mainichi claims that it is the oldest existing Japanese daily newspaper...
, its daily newspaper and main publication, in honor of the photographer Ken Domon
Ken Domon
is one of the most renowned Japanese photographers of the twentieth century. He is most celebrated as a photojournalist, though he may have been most prolific as a photographer of Buddhist temples and statuary....
. It has been awarded every year since 1982.
The Domon Ken Award is given to a single established photographer for a published book of documentary photographs. Together with sample photographs, an announcement is made in Sunday Mainichi (and previously in Camera Mainichi
Camera Mainichi
is a Japanese monthly magazine of photography that started in June 1954 and ceased publication in April 1985.As in most mass-market photography magazines, much of the editorial content of Camera Mainichi was devoted to news and reviews of cameras, lenses, and other equipment...
as well). Award-winning works are shown in the Ginza Nikon Salon
Nikon Salon
is the name given to exhibition spaces and activities run by Nikon in Japan.The Ginza Nikon Salon opened in January 1968 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Nippon Kōgaku . This was later augmented by the Shinjuku Nikon Salon and the Osaka Nikon Salon...
and the Domon Ken Photography Museum
Domon Ken Photography Museum
The was opened in 1983 in Sakata, Yamagata , the birthplace of the photographer Ken Domon.On the occasion of becoming the first honorary citizen of Sakata in 1974, Domon donated his entire collection of works to the town. This prompted the decision to build a museum in his honour.The museum has...
.
The major rival to this award for attention in the mass media is the Kimura Ihei Award
Kimura Ihei Award
The is a Japanese photographic award that attracts the attention of the mass media and book-buyers.The award has been given every year since 1975 by the Asahi Shimbun Company, publisher of Asahi Shimbun and the magazine Asahi Camera, in honor of the photographer Ihei Kimura...
, given annually to one or more newcomers.