{"id":664,"date":"2010-05-21T01:58:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T16:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/?p=664"},"modified":"2016-09-22T00:12:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T15:12:26","slug":"hideki-fujii-dies-at-age-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/2010\/05\/hideki-fujii-dies-at-age-75\/","title":{"rendered":"Hideki Fujii dies at age 75"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/txt\/Fujii_Hideki\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Karada Kesho\" src=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/images\/who\/kesho.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a>Well-known Japanese photographer\u00a0Fujii Hideki (<strong>\u85e4\u4e95 \u79c0\u6a39<\/strong>) died on May 3, 2010 at age 75. He succumbed to liver cancer. This is a major loss for Japanese photography.<\/p>\n<p>He was one of my very few favorite Japanese photographers and I was lucky enough to attend a few of his photo workshops. He had a very good eye and keen sense and taste in Japanese aesthetics, especially when it came to women. He is well-known for his exquisite images of Japanese women in kimono, nude, or body-painted.<\/p>\n<p>He studied under Akiyama Shotaro, another famous glamour and celebrity photographer who was like a godfather of Japanese photography while he was alive.<\/p>\n<p>One of his most famous photo books was <a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/txt\/Fujii_Hideki\" target=\"_self\">Madame-D Syuga<\/a> in 1993, featuring nudes of Dewi Sukarno, former Japanese wife of the Indonesian president.<\/p>\n<p>He was a very distinguished-looking man, and wasn&#8217;t just a photographer, but also an educator and leader in advertising photography. A very well-respected figure who will be sorely missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well-known Japanese photographer\u00a0Fujii Hideki (\u85e4\u4e95 \u79c0\u6a39) died on May 3, 2010 at age 75. He succumbed to liver cancer. This is a major loss for Japanese photography. He was one of my very few favorite Japanese photographers and I was&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1296,"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions\/1296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}