There is some information about Japanese photography between 1920 and 1945. Photography between 1920 and 1945 means photography between two World Wars, World War I and World War II, and includes "modern photography," "straight photography," and avant-garde photography (surrealism, dada, photogram, photomontage).

(to: Photographers between 1920 and 1945 excluding Japanese photographers in Japan)

A) Japanese Photographers between 1920 and 1945
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NAMES OF GROUPS

1. The Nihon Koga Geijutsu Kyokai - including Constructvist style

2. The Nihon Koga Kyokai

3. The Nihon Shashinkai

4. The Shinko-Shashin Kenkyukai

5. The Ashiya Camera Club

6. The Naniwa Shashin Club

7. The Tanpei Shashin Club

8. Kinreisha

9. Nippon Kobo

10. Chuo Kobo

11. The Avant-Garde Zoei Shudan

12. The Zen'ei Shashin Kyokai

13. The Nagoya Photo Avant-Garde

14. The Yonago Shayukai

15. The Chugoku Photographers Group

16. The Societe IRF

17. The Manchurian Shashin Sakka Kyokai

18. Tohosha

19. The Aiyu Shashin Club

20. The Seinen Hodo Shashin Kenkyukai

21. Photographers who cannot be classified in above groups

22. Important people other than photographers

Note on the meaning of some Japanese words from NAMES OF GROUPS:
1) "Nihon" or "Nippon" = Japan
2) "Shashin" = photography or photograph
3) "Kyokai" or "-kai" = society or association or club or group
4) "Zen'ei" = avant-garde
5) "-sha" = company
6) "Kobo" = atelier
7) "kenkyu" = study
8) "Sakka" = artist (or writer)
9) "Seinen" = young people
10) "Hodo" = news or journalism, "Hodo Shashin" = news photo

1. The Nihon Koga Geijutsu Kyokai - including Constructvist style [return to NAMES OF GROUPS]

• FUCHIKAMI, Hakuyo (1889-1960)*
• NISHI, Kikuji (dates unknown)

• YAMAMOTO, Makihiko (1893-1985)*
• WATANABE, Jun (1897-1990)*^
• SHIOTANI, Teiko (1899-1988)*^
• ARIMA, Mitsugi (or ARIMA, Kojo) (1897-1969)*^
• TAKAO, Giro (1903-1968)*
• DATE, Yoshio (?-?)*
• BABA, Yashio (1903-1974)*
• TAMURA, Sakae (1906-1987)*
• YASUMOTO, Koyo (1889-1944)
• KOSEKI, Shotaro (1907-)*^
• SHIMAMURA, Shiyo (1903-1974)

• FUKUHARA, Shinzo (1884-1948)*^
• FUKUHARA, Roso (1892-1946)*^
• SHIMAMURA, Hoko (1890-1944)*^
• KUMAZAWA, Maroni (1895-1958)
• NISHIGORI, Koji (1895-1971)
• YOSHINO, Keiichiro (1895-1983)^

• HORINO, Masao (1907- )*
• WATANABE, Yoshio (1907- )
• FURUKAWA, Narutoshi (1900- )*
• TAMURA, Sakae (1906-1987)*
• TAKAO, Giro (1903-1968)*
• DATE, Yoshio (?-?)*

• NAKAYAMA, Iwata (1895-1949)*^
• HANAYA, Kanbei (1903-1991)*^
• BENITANI, Kichinosuke (1898-1946)
• MATSUBARA, Juzo (?-?)*^
• KORAI, Seiji (1897-1962)
• YAMAKAWA, Ken'ichiro (1911- )

• FUKUMORI, Hakuyo (1887-1942)
• UMESAKA, Ori (1900-1965)*^
• KOMETANI, Koro (1889-1947)
• YASUI, Nakaji (1903-1942)*^
• UEDA, Bizan (1888-1984)*
• KOBAYASHI, Meison (1898- )^
• KOISHI, Kiyoshi (1908-1957)*^
• HANAWA, Gingo (1894-1957)^
• YANO, Toshinobu (?-?)*^
• HONJO, Koro (1907- )*^
• ASANO, Yoichi (?-?)^
• MURATA, Yonetaro (1907-1943?)^
• MORIWAKI, Eiichi (?-?)^

• YASUI, Nakaji (1903-1942)*^
• UEDA, Bizan (1888-1984)*
• KAWASAKI, Kametaro (1902-1990)*
• IWASA, Sadao (1905-1986)*
• SHIIHARA, Osamu (1905-1974)*^
• HIRAI, Terushichi (1900-1970)*^
• OTONO, Sutezo (1905-1988)*
• AMANO, Ryuichi (1902- )*^
• HONJO, Koro (1907- )*^
• KONO, Toru (1907-1984)*
• TABUCHI, Kaneyoshi (1917- )*

• KANAMARU, Shigene (1900-1977)*
• SUZUKI, Hachiro (1900-1985)*

• NATORI, Yonosuke (1910-1962)
• KIMURA, Ihee (1901-1974)*^
• DOMON, Ken (1909-1990)*^
• FUJIMOTO, Shihachi (1911- )

• KIMURA, Ihee (1901-1974)*^

• TARUI, Yoshio (1902-1977)*
• HIRAI, Terushichi (1900-1970)*^
• HANAWA, Gingo (1894-1957)^
• HONJO, Koro (1907- )*^
• MURATA, Yonetaro (1907-1943?)^
• HATTORI, Yoshifumi (?-?)^

• NAGATA, Isshu (1903-1988)*
• IMAI, Shigeru
• ABE, Yoshibumi

• SAKATA, Minoru (1902-1974)*^
• SHIMOZATO, Yoshio (1907-1981)
• TAJIMA, Tsugio (1903- )*^
• YAMAMOTO, Kansuke (1914-1987)*^
• GOTO, Keiichiro (1918- )*^

• ADACHI, Shotaro (1901- )*
• IWASA, Yasuo (1902- )*
• UEDA, Shoji (1913- )*^

• UEDA, Shoji (1913- )*^
• ISHIZU, Ryosuke (1907-1991)*
• OMORI, Kazuo (1906-1990)*
• MASAOKA, Kunio (1908-1978)

• TAKAHASHI, Wataru (1900-1944)*^
• HISANO, Hisashi (1903-1946)*^
• KONOMI, Giichiro (1896-1951)*
• TANAKA, Yoshinori (TANAKA, Zentoku) (1903-1963)*^
• YOSHIZAKI, Hitori (1912-1984)*^

• FUCHIKAMI, Hakuyo (1889-1960)*
• BABA, Yashio (1903-1974)*
• SAOTOME, Toru (?-?)*
• YONEKI, Zen-emon (1908-1957)*
• DOI, Yuji (1906-1969)*
• AOYAMA, Sunji (?-?)*
• MIZUMA, Tetsuo (?-?)*
• OKADA, Chuji (1909-1977)*
• DATE, Yoshio (?-?)*
• TERASHIMA, Manji (1898-1983)

• KIMURA, Ihee (1901-1974)*^
• KIKUCHI, Shunkichi (1916-1990)
• HAMAYA, Hiroshi (1915-1999)*^
• TAGAWA, Seiichi

• HIDAKA, Chotaro (1883-1926)
• KOJIMA, Yusen (1900-1982)
• MASUKO, Aitaro (1882-1968)
• OHASHI, Matsutaro (1891-1941)

• DOMON, Ken (1909-1990)*^
• FUJIMOTO, Shihachi (1911- )
• HAMAYA, Hiroshi (1915-1999)*^
• KATO, Kyohei (1909-1983)

• TAKAYAMA, Masataka (1895-1981)*^
• TAKEDA, Baitei (?-?)*
• NOJIMA, Yasuzo (1889-1964)*^
• NISHIYAMA, Kiyoshi (1893-1983)*
• SATO, Koji (1911-1955)*
• KOJIMA, Heihachiro (1895-1973)*
• CHIBA, Teisuke (1917-1965)*
• OKUBO, Koroku (1900-1936)*^
• KUWABARA, Kineo (1913- )*^
• FUKUDA, Katsuji (1899-1991)*
• IIDA, Kojiro (dates unknown)
• KITAO, Jun-ichiro (1896-1973)*
• Ei-Q (SUGITA, Hideo) (1911-1960)*^
• YAMAGUCHI, Masaki (1903-1959)*
• HASEGAWA, Saburo (1906-1957)
• ONCHI, Koshiro (1891-1955)*^
• SAKAMOTO, Manshichi (1900-1974)*
• HORI, Fusao (1892-1982)*
• YAMAWAKI, Iwao (1889-1987) (* but only biography)
• MIZUYA, Teitei
• MOROOKA, Koji (1914-1991)
• AMEMIYA, Goroku (1986-1972)
• ARIGA, Toragoro (1890-1893)
• IKETANI, Keitaro (1890-1968)
• ISHIKAWA, Koyo (1904-1989)
• OKADA, Koyo (1895-1972)
• KUROKAWA, Suizan (1882-1944)
• OGAWA, Gesshu (1891-1967)^
• ONO, Ryutaro (1885-1965)
• KAMATA, Yasuji (1883-1977)
• KUMAGAI, Motokazu (1909- )
• KOBAYASHI, Yuji ((1900-1989)^
• SAITO, Koji (1893-?)
• SAEKI, Keizaburo (1918-1991)
• SAKAI, Tokio (1898-1991)
• MIYAKE, Kokki
• MINAMI, Minoru (1887-1948)
• NAKAJIMA, Kenkichi
• HAGIWARA, Roshu (1895-1973)
• SHIKANO, Yasushi (1902-1994)
• SHIGETA, Harry K. (1902-1963)
• SHIBUYA, Ryukichi (1907-1995)^
• TAKADA, Minayoshi (1899-1982)^
• TANAKA, Shin'ichi (?-?)
• TABUCHI, Yukio (1905-1989)
• TSUJIMURA, Shukichi (1910-1991)
• NAGAE, Hiroshi (1886-1963)
• NARITA, Ryukichi (1895-?)
• FUKU, Mitsutaro (1898-1965)
• HOBO, Goro (1892-1973)
• YASUMOTO, Nan'yo (1905-1977)
• YAMATO, Ryohei (?-?)
• YOSHIKAWA, Tomizo (1900-1995)^
• KARA, Kengo (1891-1977)^
• KITAZUMI, Genzo (1889-1980)^
• SAKURAI, Eiichi (1909-)^
• TAKEMI, Yoshio (1914-)
• NAKAI, Masami (1904-)^
• HONMA, Kaneo (1908-)^
• MATSUSHIMA, Susumu (1913- )
• OTSUKA, Hajime (1912-1991)
• IRIE, Taikichi (1905-1992)
• NAKAMURA, Rikko (1912-1994)
• HAYASHI, Tadahiko (1918-1990)

• KIMURA, Sen'ichi [magazine editor, art critic]
• INA, Nobuo [art critic]
• MURAYAMA, Tomoyoshi (1901-1977) [artist, art critic]
• NAKADA, Sadanosuke (or NAKATA, Sadanosuke or NAKATA, Teinosuke) (1888-1970) [painter, art critic]
• OKADA, Sozo [art planner]
• ITAGAKI, Takaho (1894-1966) [art critic]
• SUGIURA, Hisui (1876-1965) [graphic designer]
• HARA, Hiromu (1903-1986) [graphic designer]
• KONO, Takashi (b. 1906) [graphic designer]
• YAMANA, Ayao (1897-1980) [graphic designer]
• KAMEKURA, Yusaku (1915-1997) [graphic designer]
• KANBARA, Tai (1898-1997) [painter, art critic]
• KIMURA, Shohachi [art critic]
• TAKIGUCHI, Shuzo [poet, art critic]
• KATSUTA, Yasuo [magazine editor, art critic]
• HAMADA, Masuji (1892-1938) [art critic, graphic designer]

Note1 for A): Because some photographers belong to several groups, the same photographer may appear more than once.

Note2 for A): * and ^
* means you can see reproduction(s) of the photographer's work(s) in the exhibition catalogue "The Founding and Development of Modern Photography in Japan." (Please see C)-1) below.)
^ means you can see reproduction(s) of the photographer's work(s) in the exhibition catalogue "Japanese Photography in 1930s." (Please see C)-2) below.)

Note3 for A): There were very few female photographers in Japan before 1945 who has been mentioned in major art exhibitions in Japan. Unfortunately all photographers listed above were males. But in the future, I will add some women photographers in Japan to my list above, including YAMAZAWA, Eiko (b. 1899).
Just for reference, there is some key information on female photographers in Japan before 1945,
i) a magazine for photography, SHASHIN GEIJUTSU (an issue of November, 1921) featured only photographs by women,
ii) UGETSU-KAI was founded by five female photographers in 1932,
iii) Lady's Camera Club organized by NOJIMA Yasuzo in 1930's in Tokyo.
I hope in the near future there will be a large photography exhibition featuring only Japanese women photographers before 1945, in Japan or other countries.

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[Photographers between 1920 and 1945 excluding Japanese photographers in Japan]

[Reference Books for photography between 1920 and 1945]
[Artists other than photographers]