Hisae Imai
Appearance
Hisae Imai | |
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Born | Tokyo, Japan | July 19, 1931
Died | February 17, 2009 | (aged 77)
Nationality | Japanese |
Known for | Photography |
Hisae Imai (今井 寿恵, Imai Hisae, 1931–2009) was a Japanese photographer who specialized in the photography of horses.[1]
Born in Tokyo in 1931, Imai graduated from Bunka Gakuin (文化学院) in 1952. She had her first solo exhibition in 1952; from the 1970s, most of her numerous solo exhibitions were of photographs of horses.[1]
Imai died on 17 February 2009.[2][3]
Permanent collections
Imai's photographs are represented in the permanent collections of:
- the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography,[4]
- Nihon University,
- the Museum of Modern Art, New York City,[5]
- the BnF (Paris),
- the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg,
- the Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art,
- the Kawasaki City Museum and
- the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts.[1]
Notes
- ^ a b c Potted biography at fotonoma.jp (Fujifilm) (in Japanese)
- ^ Death notice[permanent dead link], Okuyaminavi.com, 19 February 2009. (in Japanese)
- ^ http://www.psj.or.jp/report/photographic_expression%20in2009.pdf
- ^ 日本写真家事典 (Nihon shashinka jiten) / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers) (Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000; ISBN 4-473-01750-8). (in Japanese)
- ^ "Hisae Imai - MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art.