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I don't know what to look at when studying photography.

Japanese photography has the property of blending eastern and western cultures, and the ideas and aesthetics presented in the works are worth exploring. Usually, to understand a photographer's work, the form and content of the picture he sees are part of it, and deeper things have to be felt and understood in combination with the author's life experience and background of the times. Eight Japanese photographers, you are worth learning ~

1. Reiko Kawauchi

When she was young, rinko kawauchi, a female photographer, attracted the world's attention with her trilogy of Utata, Huahuo and Hanako. The pictures of his works do not have high-color Gao Fancha, but gently record everything in daily life with pure air pictures.

2. Ueda Yoshihiko

Ueda Yoshihiko's photo style is very eye-catching, which is different from other works that are prone to aesthetic fatigue. There is a kind of works that mainly shoot plants in blue-green tones, and blue-green makes the picture look very advanced. I also like to imitate this style of shooting and color matching.

3. Yukio Hatoyama

Known as a "professional girl photographer", Xiao Jixin always has a strange charm for girls under the camera. Yukio Hatoyama once wrote that a girl is arrogant, lying, cruel, changeable, violent, aggressive, rebellious, treacherous and bad-hearted ... so many qualities are all embodied in the same organism, and the pure and beautiful ones are only in her girlhood.

4. Akiyama Ryoji

"Hello, Children" album records the daily life of children all over China in 1980s. The writer is photographer Ryoji Akiyama. The children in Akiyama Ryuji's works are pure and full of vitality, which is rare in modern times. The creative angle is full of human touch, bright and humorous, and the overall picture is natural in color.

5. Daido Moriyama

Daido Moriyama is an important photographer universally recognized, and he is one of the disciples of the famous photographer Toyotomi Hideyoshi. His works show youthful sensibility and vitality, and his fierce black-and-white photography and strong image style are especially loved by contemporary Japanese young people.

6. Nobuyoshi Araki

Nobuyoshi Araki is a controversial photographer, and the controversy mainly comes from his "unique" shooting methods and ideas. More than 350 articles have been published since their debut, and the number is still increasing every year. He is regarded as one of the prolific artists in Japan and even in the world.

7. Hiroshi Sugimoto

Known as the last modernist, Hiroshi Sugimoto brought the history, philosophy and aesthetics of the East and the West into photography in his works. What it presents is not only a photo, but also a deep thinking space that combines eastern meditation and western cultural concepts, so Hiroshi Sugimoto is also called a philosophical photographer.

8. Hisase Masahisa

Asakusa is an important figure in Japanese photography, and his reputation has been greatly reduced due to his early retirement. Among them, Nobuyoshi Araki once commented on the famous photographic work "The Crow": "The crow with a look is the incarnation of the crow with a look. He taught me that photography is also a sigh. "