Norihiko Matsumoto Explained

is a Japanese writer on photography, and photographer.

Born in Onomichi, Hiroshima, on 1 January 1936, Matsumoto graduated from Nihon University in 1958. He started to work for the publishing company while still a student, but went freelance in 1963, mostly working for corporate and other magazines. From 1964 his photography was mainly of the theatre.^[1]

Matsumoto has published numerous books about the history of Japanese photography.

Eighteen prints by Matsumoto are in the collection of the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum.^[2]

Books by Matsumoto

• Mizutani Yaeko 1974–1979 . Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1980. Photographs by Matsumoto.
• Kamera o hajimeru hito no tame ni . Tokyo: Ikeda Shoten, 1984.
• Shōwa o toraeta shashinka no me: Sengo shashin no ayumi o tadoru . Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1989.
• A Collection of Japanese Photographs, 1912–1940. Tokyo: Shashinkosha, 1990.
• Matsumoto Norihiko sakuhin-ten: Nissei gekijō 1964–1971 . Tokyo: JCII Photo Salon, 1995.
• Shashinka no kontakuto tanken: Ichimai no meisaku wa dō ebareta ka . Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1996.
• Monokurōmu shashin no miryoku . Tonbo no Hon. Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1998. With Tsuneo Enari.
• Nihon no bijutsukan to shashin korekushon . Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2002.
• Koshiji Fubuki: Ai no sanka = Fubuki Koshiji: Hymne à l'amour. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2003.
• Shimanami Norumandī "futatsu no toshi" shashinten: Matsumoto Norihiko: Shimanami kaidō 10-shūnen kinen . Onomichi, Hiroshima: Onomichi City Museum of Art, 2009.
• Toki o kizanda shashin: Hozon ga nozomareru firumu . Tokyo: JCII Photo Salon, 2011.
• Shitte imasuka ... Hiroshima Nagasaki no genshi bakudan: Hibaku kara 70-nen . Tokyo: JCII Photo Salon, 2015.

References

1. Masaaki Hirakata, "Matsumoto Norihiko" ; page 288 within Nihon shashinka jiten / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. . Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese.
2. https://digitalmuseum.rekibun.or.jp/syabi/app/collection/list?sr=&sk=%8F%BC%96%7B+%93%BF%95F&y1=&y2=&w= Search