Hideki Fujii

Hideki Fujii, 1934—— ——) is a Japanese photographer who enjoys an international reputation, especially famous for shooting fashion portraits. His experience witnessed the development of Japanese commercial photography in the second half of the 20th century.

200 1 Fujii recalled his interesting experience of taking pictures for the first time. At that time, he was still in middle school. A boy in the class wanted to date a girl, but he was embarrassed to say so, so he asked Fujii to accompany them to the park to see a movie. There was a fire in the cinema that day, and Fujii happened to have a boy's camera in his hand. At the moment when everyone fled for their lives, Fujii stood in his seat and took pictures, including the scene of flames rising in front of the screen. Opposite the cinema is the editorial department of Asahi Newspaper Company, one of the largest newspapers in Japan. Fujii handed the film to the editor of Sun Pictorial sponsored by the newspaper, and took a full three-page photo the next day.

At that time, Fujii's mother didn't want her son to be a photojournalist, but wanted him to be an apprentice with the famous photographer Masataro Akiyama (1920-) and become a commercial photographer. Under the introduction of my brother, Fujii entered Taro Akiyama's studio as an assistant when he was a sophomore at Japan University of Arts. Akiyama and other photographers in the studio became Fujii's first teacher. When Fujii was 25 years old, he worked as an assistant to Akiyama for a long time. At that time, a new dress magazine was founded in Tokyo, and Akiyama recommended Fujii to be a photographer there for three years. I mainly do two things: first, take pictures, take pictures of clothes and accessories that women care about, cook, educate their babies and so on; The second is to be a darkroom. The magazine * * * has 80 pages, 40 of which are photos made by Fujii. For three years, Fujii slept in the studio every night, and his darkroom skills improved greatly.

It was also during his costume work that Fujii began to shoot portraits, because beautiful stars were popular in Japanese magazines at that time, and his later theme was fashion portraits.

65438-0960, Fujii jumped from fashion magazine to Japan Design Center as a photographer, mainly shooting Toyota cars. At that time, Japan was not a big automobile country, and Japanese photographers didn't know how to shoot cars in the studio. Fujii bought a toy car, illuminated the light source on the car body through a pen-thick tube, and studied the shape of the car from different angles, brightness and sides. He read a lot of materials and tried a set of methods to reflect, refract, diffuse light, fill light with reflector, and eliminate images reflected by the environment on the car body. He cooperated with some famous photographers and took a number of well-known car advertisement photos (such as the popular car advertisement photos of "I love Corolla" at that time), becoming a big shot at that time.

1963, Fujii left Japan Design Center, opened his own studio, became a freelance photographer, returned to his favorite fashion portrait photography, and became an internationally renowned fashion portrait photographer. Following the introduction of F-Photography and new F-Photography in190' s, it entered the field of documentary photography in early 2 1 s, and in 2002, it published "Hideki Fujii Photo Collection-Angkor Children's Hospital".

Hideki Fujii, an internationally renowned Japanese photographer, was the president of the Japan Advertising Photographers Association. This is the first time that Hideki Fujii's works have appeared in Beijing in the form of a solo exhibition. During his 50-year photography career, Hideki Fujii has been constantly exploring new forms, and his position in fashion portrait photography is rare in Japanese commercial advertising.

Influenced by French painter Mary Roland, Fujii also broke people's established concept of photographic photos. He painted photographic emulsion on wood, silk, paper and various materials to make photographic paper. Making darkrooms on these special photographic papers like ordinary photographic papers, the artistic effect of photos obtained is even more remarkable than expected. Different materials have different textures, and wood grain, cloth grain, paper grain and stone grain can be harmoniously combined with the image.

In high school, Fujii once went to the movies with his classmates, but unfortunately the cinema caught fire. Fujii photographed the scene of the fire with a camera. Opposite the cinema is the Daily News Agency. Fujii handed the film to the editor of Sun Photo News sponsored by the news agency. The photo was widely published on the front page the next day, and he also won the "Sun News Photography" award for excellent reporting photography. This experience aroused Fujii's interest in photography.

After graduating from high school, Fujii was admitted to the photography department of Japanese University. Under the introduction of my brother, Fujii began to work as an assistant in Taro Photography Studio in Akiyama Villa when he was a sophomore. Later, he dropped out of school because of his busy work. He feels that he can learn a lot of knowledge and experience from his work that he can't learn at school. Three years later, Fujii was recommended to the newly established clothing magazine. At that time, a popular female star in Japanese magazines, Fujii began to shoot portraits, which laid a solid foundation for his future portrait photography. After another three years, Fujii didn't want to stick to the rules. At this time, the Japan Design Center has just been established. Fujii used to be a photographer, mainly responsible for advertising photography of Toyota and Nikon.

Because he loved shooting black and white portraits, Fujii later quit his job and opened his own studio to become a freelance photographer. He paid a large sum of money to a beautiful girl who was only sixteen years old to be his special model. In less than a year, Fujii had his own unique understanding of beauty during the filming process. Then Maxfactor found him and put him in charge of cosmetics promotion, so he started shooting color portraits. 1965 won the gold medal in Spanish news advertisement.

In the 1960s, Japanese advertising photography was dominated by European and American models. The beauty with brown skin is set in the sea, sky and beach, and the photographer tries to show the model's vigorous body at a low angle. In 1970s, Fujii questioned advertising photography centered on foreign models. He believes that we should pick up the essence of Japan again for study and research, and shoot according to contemporary requirements. He thought that kimono represented the traditional beauty of Japan, so he created various experimental works with kimono as props. Using Japanese women and kimono to create, Fujii has a certain influence in the world advertising photography.

Ms. Qiao Zhou, Hideki Fujii's agent in China, said that Fujii, 72, continued to explore and pursue new things. He often asks himself, "Are your photos satisfied with the technology and skills?" This is also the reason why he is ahead of others in female portrait photography, fashion advertising composition and color innovation.