Born in Tokyo in 1940. From 1967 to 1970 he worked as the cameraman of the theatrical group Tenjo Sajiki, under Shuji Terayama. He won the 16th Domon Ken Award by his work “Human Memory(人間の記憶)”. His main works are “Fushi kaden”, “Waga-Tokyo 100”, “Ningen no kioku”, “Min'yo sanga” etc..

Chronology

1940 Born in Tokyo
1962 Graduated from Tokyo College of photography
1967-70 Staff photographer, Tenjo Sajiki Stage Production, Tokyo
1971 Freelance photographer since 1971

Selected Publications

1978 Fushi Kaden, Asahi Sonorama, Tokyo
1979 Issei Suda: My Tokyo 100, Nikkor Club, Tokyo
1991 Dog Nose, IPC, Tokyo
1996 Human Memory, Creo, Tokyo
1998 Issei Suda , Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo
2000 Scarlet Bloom, Wides Syuppan, Tokyo

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1977 "Fushi Kaden", Nikon Salon, Ginza, Tokyo
1978 "Anonymous Men and Women: Tokyo 1976-78", Nikon Salon, Ginza, Tokyo
1978 "Issei Suda", Camp, Tokyo
1978 "Fushi Kaden", Canon Photo Gallery, Amsterdam
1979 "Shinano", Minolta Photo Space, Tokyo, Osaka
1979 "Issei Suda", Tukaido, Fukuoka
1981 "Issei Suda: My Tokyo", SICF, Milan
1982 "Monogusa Syui", Nagase Photo Salon, Tokyo
1982 "to North-from North", Minolta Photo Space, Tokyo, Osaka
1983 "Landscape with Chimney: Tokyo 1980-82", Olympus Gallery, Tokyo
1983 "Tokyo Today", Konishiroku Photo Gallery, Tokyo
1983 "Issei Suda", Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics Gallery, Tokyo
1985 "Hong Kong Acceleration", Doi Photo Plaza, Tokyo
1985 "Taipei Kissyo", Tokyo Designers' Space Gallery, Tokyo
1985 "Fragment of Everyday life", Olympus Gallery, Tokyo
1986 "Tsugaru", Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo
1986 "Landscape of Japan", Fuji Photo Salon, Tokyo
1986 "Sight-seeing Photograph", Pax Gallery, Tokyo
1986 "Issei Suda", Picture Photo Space, Osaka
1987 "The Big Picture-International Month of Photography'87", Athenae
1988 "Taipei White Heat", Doi Photo Plaza, Tokyo
1989 "4 Chome, Ginza, Tokyo 1983-1986", Nikon Salon, Ginza, Tokyo
1989 "Block 1988 Hong Kong", Olympus Gallery, Tokyo
1989 "Issei Suda", Niihama Municipal Establishment Museum, Niihama
1989 "Tokyo 1980", PGI, Tokyo
1991 "Utsunomiya", FROG, Tokyo
1991 "Wet Sand in August", Hiranaga-cho-bashi Gallery, Tokyo
1991 "Dog Nose", Minolta Photo Space, Tokyo
1991 "In the Storehouse", Fuji Photo Salon Professional Space, Tokyo
1991 "Yokohama", FROG, Tokyo
1991 "Jilong Chilung", Hiranaga-cho-bashi Gallery, Tokyo
1992 "Hong Kong Scan", Hiranaga-cho-bashi Gallery, Tokyo
1992 "Osaka 1990/Tokyo 1980", Picture Photo Space, Osaka
1992 "Hakodate", Hakodate History Plaza, Hakodate
1992 "Taipei", Kaohsiung City Library, Taiwan
1993 "Naked City", Doi Photo Plaza, Tokyo
1993 "Taipei", Hiranaga-cho-bashi Gallery, Tokyo
1993 "Fushi Kaden", Gallery Art Graph, Tokyo
1993 "Family Diary", Hiranaga‐cho‐bashi Gallery, Tokyo
1994 "Challenge of Light", Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo
1994 "Trance", Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
1995 "Flow of People", Hiranaga-cho-bashi Gallery, Tokyo
1995 "Landscape of Japan 1988-1993", Fuji Photo Salon Professional Space, Tokyo
1995 "Normal Life", Hiranaga-cho-bashi Gallery, Tokyo
1995 "Shanghai", Hiranaga-cho-bashi Gallery, Tokyo
1995 "Trance Trunk/Elegy", Hiranaga-cho-bashi Gallery, Tokyo
1996 "Eclipse", Konica Plaza, Tokyo
1996 "Vietnam Summer", Gallery Art Graph, Tokyo
1996 "Ho-Chi-Minh City", Doi Photo Plaza, Tokyo
1996 "Fushi Kaden", Gallery Verita, Tokyo
1996 "October Light-To Osorezan", Hiranaga-cho-bashi Gallery, Tokyo
1997 "Still Photographs-Tenjo Sajiki 1967-70", Hiranaga-cho-bashi Gallery, Tokyo
1997 "Vietnam Night Seen", Gallery Art Graph, Tokyo
1997 "Human Memory", Nikon Salon, Ginza, Tokyo, Osaka
1998 "Hello Vietnam", Nikon Salon, Ginza, Tokyo
1998 "Snap Landscape", Gallery Furushima, Chiba
1999 "Issei Suda", International Fototage Herten
1999 "Sequence", Tokyo Photographic Culture Center, Tokyo
1999 "Fushi Kaden", Gallery PastRays, Yokohama
1999 "Issei Suda Works", Gallery PastRays, Yokohama
1999 "Issei Suda Selected", Gallery Furushima, Chiba
1999 "Fushi Kaden", Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
1999 "New Area", Konica Plaza, Tokyo
1999 "2Places", Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
1999 "Issei Suda", Gallery la vie, Iwate
2000 "Bosoh Sketch", Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo
2000 "Tokyo Landscape 1975-1978", Nikon Salon, Ginza, Tokyo, Osaka
2000 "Issei Suda", Mick, Kumamoto
2000 "Vintage 1965-1972", Light Works, Yokohama
2000 "Beginning", Gallery Past Rays, Yokohama
2000 "Issei Suda", Osaka University of Arts, Osaka
2000 "Infancy Days", Konica Plaza, Tokyo
2000 "Issei Suda", Tokyo Photographic Culture Center, Tokyo
2000 "Bosoh Sketch ?", Gallery Furushima, Chiba
2000 "Taipei", Gallery Art Graph, Tokyo
2001 "Typhoon Okinawa", Gallery Nadar, Osaka
2001 "Rubber", Gallery Past Rays, Yokohama

Awards

1976 Newcomer's Award, The Photographic Society of Japan
1983 Annual Award, The Photographic Society of Japan
1985 Domestic Artist Prize, Higashikawa Award, Higashikawa International Photography Festival Hokkaido
1997 The Domon Ken Award

Collections

Tokyo College of Polytechnics, Tokyo
Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum, Yamaguchi
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
Higashikawa Hokkaido
The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, U.S.A.
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, U.S.A.
Osaka University of Art, Osaka
Miyagi Prefectural Art Museum, Sendai
Paris Museum of Photography, Paris, France
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

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Publications & Prints

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