Fusako Kodama


Fusako Kodama is a Japanese photographer who has concentrated on people in cities as subjects.

Life and career

Kodama was born in Wakayama City in 1945. She graduated from Kuwasawa Design School in 1967. She then worked as a photographer for a company named Le Mars.
In 1990 Grafication, a PR magazine of Fuji Xerox, published a series of pieces by Kodama that were later collected into her first photobook, Criteria. With its depiction of nuclear power plants and other scenes of advanced technology, this book was widely noted as a remarkable document.
This was followed by depictions of street life in the metropolis, in the photobook Tokyo Kinetic and various exhibitions. In 1993, Kodama won the Annual Award of the Photographic Society of Japan. From April 1993 to March 1995, the magazine Asahi Camera ran a series by her, Tokyo Cruising.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography possesses twenty prints by Kodama of Tokyo and Tokyo Bay, dating from 1970 to 1977.

Books by Kodama

Together with Miho Akioka, Miyako Ishiuchi, Yuri Nagahara, Hiroko Matsuo and Michiko Matsumoto, Kodama is interviewed within the video 6 works and 6 artists.