PHOTOGRAPHER

Kishin Shinoyama

1940 - 2024

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Kishin Shinoyama (篠山 紀信, Shinoyama Kishin; December 3, 1940 – January 4, 2024) was a Japanese photographer. He is well-known for having photographed the covers for John Lennon and Yoko Ono's albums, Double Fantasy and Milk and Honey. Before his marriage to Saori Minami in 1979, he took a majority of the photographs for her album covers with CBS/Sony. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kishin Shinoyama is the 86th most popular photographer (down from 56th in 2019), the 1,194th most popular biography from Japan (down from 881st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Japanese Photographer.

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Kishin Shinoyama ranks 86 out of 148. Before him are Abbas, Heinrich Zille, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Boris Mikhailov, Willy Puchner, and Albert Renger-Patzsch. After him are Helen Levitt, Alexandre Michon, Mario Testino, Guy Bourdin, Henry Peach Robinson, and Roman Vishniac.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Kishin Shinoyama ranks 330. Before him are Alain Calmat, István Csom, Andrey Piontkovsky, Benoni Beheyt, Zhanna Prokhorenko, and Carole Pateman. After him are Eberhard Weber, Ronald Pickup, Daniel Quillen, Levon Helm, Arthur Laffer, and Arlie Russell Hochschild. Among people deceased in 2024, Kishin Shinoyama ranks 310. Before him are George Eastham, Richard Simmons, Francisco Rodríguez, Charles Shyer, Pedro Rubiano Sáenz, and Michel Jazy. After him are Guram Kostava, Lynn Conway, Allen J. Bard, Anatoliy Konkov, Béla Károlyi, and James C. Scott.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kishin Shinoyama ranks 1,194 out of 6,245. Before him are Kenji Miyamoto (1908), Tomoko Ohara (1957), Tomoyasu Asaoka (1962), Iccho Itoh (1945), Utagawa Toyokuni (1769), and Kunio Maekawa (1905). After him are Takuma Sato (1977), Yukitaka Omi (1952), Yoko Tawada (1960), Yūjirō Ishihara (1934), Takehito Koyasu (1967), and Eiji Okada (1920).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In Japan

Among photographers born in Japan, Kishin Shinoyama ranks 4. Before him are Nobuyoshi Araki (1940), Daidō Moriyama (1938), and Hiroshi Sugimoto (1948).

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