About Shunji Ōkura
Lived 1937 – 2015 (aged 77). Shunji Ōkura was a Japanese photographer.
Shunji Ōkura (2 May 1937 – 6 February 2015) was a Japanese photographer.
Biography He was the grandson of painter Gyokudō Kawai. In 1958 he became Akira Satō's assistant and since 1959 he worked as a freelance photographer.
Ōkura's Emma photobook, published in 1971, a candid story-portrait of his friend and muse, Japanese actress and singer Emma Sugimoto, was awarded the Japan Photograph Association's annual prize.
Ōkura died on 6 February 2025, at the age of 77.
Books Emma, private 2. Tokyo: Camera Mainichi, 1971 Muses, Tokyo: Seibundo Shinkosha, 1992 Kabuki today, text by Iwao Kamimura. Tokyo, 2001
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