Masao Gozu

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Masao Gozu (郷津 雅夫 Gōzu Masao?, ごうづ まさお, born 1946) is a Japanese photographer and sculptor who has worked in New York.

Born in Nagano Prefecture in 1946, Gozu graduated from Toyo Art School (Tōyō Bijutsu Senmon Gakkō) in 1970. The next year he moved to New York, where he studied at and in 1973 graduated from Brooklyn Museum Art School. There he photographed people looking out of windows. These photographs are carefully made, with perspective correction. They constituted his first solo exhibition, at O. K. Harris Works of Art in 1980. A second series (1976–81) is of a view, with framing precisely fixed, into the window of Harry's Bar (renamed to Harold's Bar). A third series is "264", identically framed views of 264 the Bowery, occupied by a succession of the destitute and derelict.

Gozu's work has been shown in the Ginza Nikon Salon as well as in galleries in New York. He won the 10th Ina Nobuo Award.

Dec 1990, He won the Le prix special du jury,Moris de la photo 90,Paris France.

Gozu has also worked as a sculptor, concentrating on the reworking of windowframes that he has rescued from buildings demolished in New York.

[edit] Books by Gozu

  • In New York (Feb. 1971–Nov. 1980). Self-published. 1981.
  • In New York (Feb. 1971–Dec. 1984). Self-published. 1985.
  • In New York (Feb. 1971–Apr. 1990). Self-published. 1990.
  • New York. Tokyo: Advertise Communication, 1990. ISBN 4-90052-02-0. Captions (place and time) in English, texts by Ivan Karp and Kōtarō Iizawa in Japanese and English.

[edit] References

  • (Japanese) Ina Nobuo Shō 20 nen: Nikon Saron ni miru gendai shashin no keifu (伊奈信男賞20年：ニコンサロンにみる現代写真の系譜) / Ina Nobuo Award '76–'95. Nikon Salon Books 23. Tokyo: Nikkor Club, 1996. Pp. 78–83.
  • (Japanese) Nihon shashinka jiten (日本写真家事典) / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN 4-473-01750-8.
  • (Japanese) Shashinshū o yomu: Besuto 338 kanzen gaido (写真集を読む：ベスト338完全ガイド, Reading photobooks: A complete guide to the best 338). Tokyo: Metarōgu, 1997. ISBN 4-8398-2010-4. New York is written up.

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