Hiroji kubota biography of barack

          Born in Kanda (Tokyo), Kubota studied politics at Waseda University, graduating in In he met the Magnum photographers René Burri, Elliott Erwitt.

        1. Hiroji Kubota: Photographer.
        2. Born in Kanda (Tokyo), Kubota studied politics at Waseda University, graduating in In he met the Magnum photographers René Burri, Elliott Erwitt, and.
        3. A photographer born in Tokyo in that began his career in by assisting Magnum photographers René Burri, Burt Glinn, and Elliott Erwitt.
        4. The son of a prominent fish merchant, Kubota graduated from college with a degree in political science and a passion for travel.

          5. Born in Kanda (Tokyo), Kubota studied politics at Waseda University, graduating in In he met the Magnum photographers René Burri, Elliott Erwitt, and..

          Hiroji Kubota

          Japanese photographer

          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.[1] In 1961 he met the Magnum photographers René Burri, Elliott Erwitt, and Burt Glinn.[2] 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.[1]

          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.[1]

          Kubota won the Mainichi Art Prize in 1980,[2] and the Annual Award of the Photographic Society of Japan in 1981.[3]