Asano Kiichi (1914–1993), born in Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, moved to Kyoto Metropolis as a toddler, the place he was deeply influenced by the town’s arts and traditions.
His ardour for images started in highschool, main him to seize Kyoto’s previous methods as they had been disappearing within the metropolis’s transition to modernity. Within the Nineteen Fifties, he documented the lifetime of Kyoto’s geisha and Japan’s snow nation, aiming to protect pictures of fading rural traditions. His profession introduced quite a few awards and membership within the Japan Skilled Photographer’s Society, and he revealed notable works like *Snow Nation* and *Invitation to Japanese Gardens*. At present, his images are a part of collections in distinguished museums, together with the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Images and the San Francisco Museum of Fashionable Artwork.
h/t: vintag.es
