(松島 進, Matsushima Susumu, 5 January 1913 – 2009) was a Japanese
photographer famous for portraits of women, fashion photography, and nudes.
Matsushima was born on 5 January 1913 in
Ushigome,
Tokyo. He studied at Tōkyō Kōtō Kōgei Gakkō (東京高等工芸学校, later incorporated within
Chiba University), where a fellow-student was
Gen Ōtsuka. On graduating in 1933, he joined
Jiji Shinpō-sha, but soon quit and moved to
Nikkatsu, where he worked as a photographer, focusing especially on portraits of women, which he also submitted to Photo Times and other photographic magazines.
After the war Matsushima went freelance, working on portraits of women, fashion, and the like. In 1948 he created the group Shashinka Shūdan (写真家集団) with
Fujio Matsugi,
Sankichi Ozaki and others. He continued to work prolifically after this.
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abAccording to Shashinka wa nani o hyōgen shita ka, p.35; this gives no information beyond the title and year.
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abAccording to Shashinka wa nani o hyōgen shita ka, p.35; this gives no information beyond the title.
References
Nihon no shashin: Uchinaru katachi, sotonaru katachi 1: Torai kara 1945 made (日本の写真 内なるかたち・外なるかたち 1 渡来から1945まで) / Japanese Photography: Form In/Out 1: From Its Introduction to 1945. Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1996. (in Japanese and English) Exhibition catalogue. Text and captions in Japanese and English.
Nihon shashinka jiten (日本写真家事典) / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000.
ISBN4-473-01750-8. (in Japanese) Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese.
Shashinka wa nani o hyōgen shita ka: 1945–1960 (写真家はなにを表現したか1945~1960, What were photographers expressing? 1945–1960). Tokyo: Konica Plaza, 1991. (in Japanese)