Rosō Fukuhara

was a Japanese photographer noted for a strikingly modern approach to pictorialism.

He was born in Ginza on 16 January 1892, as nihongo|Nobutatsu Fukuhara|福原信辰|Fukuhara Nobutatsu, son of nihongo|Arinobu Fukuhara|福原 有信|Fukuhara Arinobu, the head of Apothecary Shiseidō (which in 1927 would be incorporated as Shiseidō) and nihongo|Toku Fukuhara|福原 とく|Fukuhara Toku. His three eldest brothers [By conventional count, his "two" eldest brothers: One died so young that he was not counted when Shinzō was given a name indicating that he was the third.] died young, but another older brother, Shinzō, would also win great fame as a photographer and the last, Nobuyoshi (信義, b.1897) would win some fame too, under the name nihongo|Tōru Namiki|並木 透|Namiki Tōru.

Fukuhara studied French at Keio University (Tokyo) from 1911 to 1917. His photographic activities were amateur but rigorous; his photographs employing both shallow focus and rather incongruous juxtapositions to great effect. (Half of a photograph by Fukuhara might be taken up by corrugated metal fencing.)

Fukuhara died on 29 September 1946 in Nagano.

Notes

Books showing Fukuhara's works

*ja icon "Fukuhara Shinzō, Fukuhara Rosō: Hikari to sono kaichō" (福原信三　福原路草：光とその諧調, Shinzō Fukuhara, Rosō Fukuhara: Light and its harmony). Nikon Salon Books 3. Tokyo: Nikkor Club, 1977.
*ja icon "Fukuhara Shinzō to Fukuhara Rosō" (福原信三と福原路草, Shinzō Fukuhara and Rosō Fukuhara). Nihon no Shashinka 3. Tokyo: Iwanami, 1997. ISBN 4-00-008343-0.
*"Hikari no shijō: Fukuhara Shinzō no sekai" (光の詩情：福原信三の世界) / "The World of Shinzo Fukuhara: Poetics of Light." Tokyo: Shiseido Corporate Culture Department, 1994.
*"Hikari to sono kaichō: Fukuhara Shinzō, Fukuhara Rosō: 1913年–1941" (光とその諧調：福原信三・福原路草：1913年–1941年) / "The Light with Its Harmony: Shinzo Fukuhara / Roso Fukuhara: Photographs 1913–1941." Tokyo: Watari-um, 1992. ISBN 4-900398-17-9.

Other sources

*ja icon Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, editor. nihongo|"328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers"|『日本写真家事典』|"Nihon shashinka jiten. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN 4-473-01750-8

External links

*ja icon [http://www.shiseido.co.jp/s9704sin/html/sin00001.htm Shinzō and Rosō Fukuhara] at Shiseido. A large collection of their photographs, and some other materials.