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Born in Fukuoka, Narahara studied art history at the graduate school of Waseda University.!
Ikkō Narahara
Japanese photographer (–)
Ikkō Narahara[n 1] (奈良原 一高, Narahara Ikkō, November 3, – January 19, )[1][2] was a Japanese photographer.
His work is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
A member of the short-lived yet highly influential Tokyo-based art agency Vivo () alongside Shōmei Tōmatsu, Kikuji Kawada and Eikoh Hosoe.
Early life and education
Born in Fukuoka, Narahara studied law at Chuo University (graduating in ) and, influenced by statues of Buddha at Nara, art history at the graduate school of Waseda University, from which he received an MA in
Career
He had his first solo exhibition, Ningen no tochi (Human land), at the Matsushima Gallery (Ginza) in In this Narahara showed Kurokamimura, a village on Sakurajima.
The exhibition brought instant renown. In his second exhibition, "Domains", at the Fuji Photo Salon in , he showed a Trappist monastery in Tobetsu (Hokkaidō), and a women's prison in Wakayama.
In the meantime, Narahara had shown his works in the first () of three exhibitions titled The Eyes of Ten; exhibited in all