Name Susumu Matsushima | Role Photographer | |
Susumu Matsushima (松島 進, Matsushima Susumu, 5 January 1913 – 2009) was a Japanese photographer famous for portraits of women, fashion photography, and nudes.
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Matsushima was born on 5 January 1913 in Ushigome, Tokyo. He studied at Tōkyō Kōtō Kōgei Gakkō (東京高等工芸学校, later incorporated within Chiba University), where a fellow-student was Gen Ōtsuka. On graduating in 1933, he joined Jiji Shinpō-sha, but soon quit and moved to Nikkatsu, where he worked as a photographer, focusing especially on portraits of women, which he also submitted to Photo Times and other photographic magazines.
After the war Matsushima went freelance, working on portraits of women, fashion, and the like. In 1948 he created the group Shashinka Shūdan (写真家集団) with Fujio Matsugi, Sankichi Ozaki and others. He continued to work prolifically after this.
Matsushima was an honorary member of the Japan Professional Photographers Society and the Japan Photographers Association.