Out of the East: Transition, From sea to shining sea, Hiroji Kubota Photographer, Japan, China
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Hiroji Kubota(久保田 博二,Kubota Hiroji, born 2 August 1939) is a Japanese photographer, a member of Magnum Photos who has specialized in photographing the far east.
Born in Kanda (Tokyo), Kubota studied politics at Waseda University, graduating in 1962. In 1961 he met the Magnum photographers René Burri, Elliott Erwitt, and Burt Glinn. He then studied journalism and international politics at the University of Chicago, and became an assistant to Erwitt and Cornell Capa, in 1965, a freelance photographer.
Kubota photographed the 1968 US presidential election and then Ryūkyū islands before their return to Japan in 1972. He then photographed Saigon in 1975, North Korea in 1978, and China in 1979–85, and the USA in 1988–92, resulting in books and exhibitions.
Kubota won the Mainichi Art Prize in 1980, and the Annual Award of the Photographic Society of Japan in 1981. Three of his publications won him the first Kodansha Publishing Culture Award in 1970: "Black People", and essays on Calcutta and the Ryūkyū islands.
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Exhibitions by Kubota
"The President's People." Neikrug Gallery (New York), 1976.
Shinpen keirin mugen (新編桂林夢幻). Tokyo: Iwanami, 1990. ISBN 4-00-260046-7. (in Japanese)
Shinpen Kōzan shinkyū (新編黄山仙境). Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1991. ISBN 4-00-260068-8. (in Japanese)
Haruka naru daichi Chūgoku (遥かなる大地中国). Hachiōji: Tokyo Fuji Bijutsukan, 1991. (in Japanese)
Amerika no shōzō (アメリカの肖像). Tokyo: Shūeisha, 1992. ISBN 4-08-532043-2. (in Japanese)
From Sea to Shining Sea: A Portrait of America. New York: Norton, 1992. ISBN 0-393-03410-0. (in English)
Amerika: ein Porträt. Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe, 1992. ISBN 3-455-08454-0. (in German)
Ichiban tōi kuni: Kita Chōsen annai (いちばん遠い国・北朝鮮案内). Tokyo: Takarajima, 1994: ISBN 4-7966-0846-X. (in Japanese)
China. New York: Norton, 1995. ISBN 0-393-02243-9. (in English)
Ajia to shokuryō (アジアと食料) / Can We Feed Ourselves? Tokyo: Ie no Hikari Kyōkai, 1999. ISBN 4-259-54566-3. (in Japanese) The captions specify the place in both Japanese and English but the explanatory text is in Japanese only.
Can We Feed Ourselves? A Focus on Asia. New York: Magnum, 1999. ISBN 0-914122-00-2. (in English)
Out of the East: Transition and Tradition in Asia. New York: Norton, 1999. ISBN 0-393-04088-7. (in English)
Japan. New York: Norton, 2005. ISBN 0-393-05843-3. (in English)