Michio Hoshino
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Michio Hoshino (星野 道夫 Hoshino Michio?, (September 27, 1952-August 8, 1996) was a famous Japanese-born nature photographer.
Called one of the most accomplished nature photographers of our time[citation needed] and compared to Ansel Adams,[citation needed] Hoshino specialized in photographing Alaskan wildlife, and was killed by a grizzly bear while on assignment in Kurilskoya Lake, Russia in 1996.
Lynn Schooler's book The Blue Bear relates the story of the author's friendship with Hoshino, a man he admired greatly for his skill as a photographer and his humanity. Schooler is a wilderness guide who became a photographer in his own right under Hoshino's tutelage.
Hoshino's wife and son, only two years old at the time of his death, survive him.
[edit] Hoshino's photographs
- Grizzly. San Francisco: Chronicle, 1987. ISBN 0877014310.
- The Grizzly Bear Family Book. North-South Books, 1997. ISBN 1558587012. For young readers.
- Hoshino's Alaska. San Francisco: Chronicle, 2007. ISBN 978-0811856515.
- Moose. San Francisco: Chronicle, 1988. Hardback ISBN 0877015031. Paperback ISBN 0877014949.
[edit] Further reading
- Schooler, Lynn. The Blue Bear. New York: Harper Collins, 2002. ISBN 0060935731. New York: Ecco, 2002. ISBN 0066210852.
[edit] External links
- (Japanese) Hoshino's site
- Coming Home: The Photographs of Michio Hoshino
- Interview with Lynn Schooler about The Blue Bear
