- Kimura Ihei Award
The nihongo|Kimura Ihei Award|木村伊兵衛写真賞|Kimura Ihei Shashin-shō 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 (except 1983) by the Asahi Shimbun Company, publisher of "Asahi Shimbun" and the magazine "
Asahi Camera ", in honor of the photographerIhei Kimura . It is given to one or more new photographers whose work has been exhibited or published during the previous year and is announced in the April issue of "Asahi Camera": its original name, soon shortened, was "Asahi Kamera Kimura Ihei Shashin-shō" (nihongo2|アサヒカメラ木村伊兵衛写真賞).The award is given for achievement during the previous year and is usually given to a single photographer. In 2000, the unprecedented awarding of three prizes, each to a female photographer, caused a stir.
Its major rival for attention in the mass media is the
Domon Ken Award , given annually to a single photographer, usually one with a more solid background than those who win the Kimura Award.Bibliography
*ja icon "Kimura Ihei Shashinshō no nijūnen" (nihongo2|木村伊兵衛写真賞の20年, "20 years of the Kimura Ihei Award". Mōru, 1995. ISBN 4-938628-17-1. With sample photographs from each of the award-winners (more from each of them than appear in the later, thirty-year compilation).
*ja icon "Kimura Ihei Shashinshō no kiseki: 1975–1999" (nihongo2|木村伊兵衛写真賞の奇跡:1975–1999, "Remains of the Kimura Ihei Award: 1975–1999"). An exhibition catalogue.
*ja icon "Sanjūroku fotogurafāzu: Kimura Ihei Shashinshō no sanjūnen" (nihongo2|36フォトグラファーズ:木村伊兵衛写真賞の30年, "36 photographers: 30 years of the Kimura Ihei Award"). Tokyo: Asahi Shinbun, 2005. ISBN 4-02-272303-3. With sample photographs from each of the award-winners.External links
*" [http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200505200139.html Prize-winning photographers put medium's evolution in focus] " ( [http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:zuyZyimL9pYJ:www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200505200139.html&hl=ja&gl=jp&ct=clnk&cd=1&ie=UTF-8&inlang=ja Google cache] ): Exhibition review, 20 May 2005.
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