Born in Osaka, Koishi joined the Naniwa Photography Club in 1928. Influenced by Man Ray, Moholy-Nagy, and other avant-garde photographers, he made effective use of a variety of photographic techniques, including the photogram, solarization, and infrared photography. In 1932, he showed a masterly work, the series entitled Early Summer Nerves, in the twenty-first Namiten (Naniwa Photography Club exhibition). In 1936, he published a reference book on special photographic techniques, Satsuei - Sakuga no Shin Giho (New techniques for photographing and making prints). In 1940, he published another masterwork, Half World, a series of ten images based on photographs he had taken in China, at the front. The Half World series was shown in the twenty-ninth Namiten; the ten works in it are filled with scathing criticism of war.
- Collection of
- Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
- Series title
- Half World
- Title
- 8. Behavior of cast-off skin
- Original title
- 8. 抜殻の挙動
- Artist Name
- KOISHI Kiyoshi
- Year
- 1940
- Material / Technique
- Gelatin silver print on developing-out paper
- Dimensions
- 444x342mm
- Accession number
- 10011246
- Tokyo Photographic Art Museum “Search the Collection”
- https://collection.topmuseum.jp/Publish/detailPage/49853/
