About Rosō Fukuhara
Lived 1892 – 1946 (aged 54). Rosō Fukuhara was a Japanese photographer.
was a Japanese photographer noted for a strikingly modern approach to pictorialism.
He was born in Ginza on 16 January 1892, as , son of , the head of Apothecary Shiseidō (which in 1927 would be incorporated as Shiseidō) and . His three eldest brothers 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 .
Fukuhara studied French at Keio University (Tokyo) from 1911 to 1917. His photographic activities were amateur but rigorous; his photographs employed 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.
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Who was Rosō Fukuhara?
Japanese photographer
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Rosō Fukuhara was born on 16 January 1892 in Tokyo.
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Rosō Fukuhara died on 29 September 1946 in Nagano.
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