Shinzo Fukuhara

(b Tokyo, 25 July 1883; d Tokyo, 29 Sept 1946). Japanese photographer. The son of the head of Shiseido pharmaceutical company, he went to the USA in 1908 to study pharmacology at Columbia University. He graduated in 1913 and, on his way back to Japan, he spent six months in Paris, where he took many photographs, mainly of the banks of the Seine, reminiscent of sketches by Degas; these were later published as Pari to Senu ('Paris and the Seine'; Tokyo, 1922) and were highly regarded as examples of Japanese pictorial photography.

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Fukuhara, Shinzo (1883-1948), Japanese modernist photographer. After studying in New York and Europe he returned to Japan in 1913. Though working for the cosmetics company Shiseido under his father he devoted much time and effort to his own art photography and to developing forums for other art photographers. In 1921 he formed the group Shashin Geijutsusha (Art Photography) with Roso Fukuhara and launched a magazine of the same name. He published Paris and the Seine in 1922 and Hikari to sono kaicho (Light and Harmony) in 1923. A major influence on his contemporaries, he helped to found the Nihon Shashinkai (Japan Photographers' Group) in 1924.

— Madeleine Hill Vedel