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Soichi Sunami (角南 壮一, given name translating as "magnificent first son," and family name translating as "south corner"; 1885–1971) was a Japanese and American modernist photographer, influenced by the pictorialist movement, and best known for his portraits of early modern dancers, including Ruth St Denis, Agnes De Mille, Helen Tamiris and Martha Graham, with whom he maintained an extended artistic collaboration.[1][2] He produced some of the only known images of the early black modern dancer, Edna Guy, and also photographed the modern dancer Harald Kreutzberg.[3]
^"The Arts - 'Shadows of a Fleeting World' reveals a hidden chapter in Seattle's cultural history - Seattle Times Newspaper". The Seattle Times. 12 March 2011. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
^Michael Upchurch. "In a new Seattle exhibit, dance photography that dazzles". Crosscut. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
^"Little-known Seattle photographer was a purveyor of beauty". Seattle Herald. 11 October 2018. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
SoichiSunami (角南 壮一, given name translating as "magnificent first son," and family name translating as "south corner"; 1885–1971) was a Japanese and...
extended collaboration with Japanese-American pictorialist photographer SoichiSunami, and over the next five years they together created some of the most...
Iwao Matsushita (prominent members later included Ella E. McBride and SoichiSunami). Pictorial photographers began by taking an ordinary glass-plate or...
recruits for the museum staff was the noted Japanese-American photographer SoichiSunami (at that time best known for his portraits of modern dance pioneer Martha...
early mentor to the Japanese American photographers Frank Kunishige and SoichiSunami, who assisted him at McBride Studios. He was an informal advisor to...
Joseph Stella Inga Stephens Pratt Clark Harry Sternberg Clyfford Still SoichiSunami Katharine Lamb Tait Minerva Teichert Val Telberg Patty Prather Thum...
SoichiSunami, was a noted Pictorialist photographer best known for his extended artistic collaboration with modern dance icon Martha Graham. Sunami,...
Observatory, outside of San Andrés Cholula in Mexico's Puebla state. Died: SoichiSunami, 86, Japanese-born American portrait photographer The U.S. probe Mariner...
Hammond was friends with Martha Graham and met photographer SoichiSunami through Graham. Sunami would photograph Hammond during their friendship. In 1931...
qualities that Pictorial photographers prized. Along with Wayne Albee and SoichiSunami, he worked for Ella E. McBride at the McBride studio. During the 1920s...
copies of his prints at that exhibition and gave the profits to SCC. SoichiSunami (1885‒1971) He learned photography in Seattle while working as an assistant...
Nomura, Yasushi Tanaka and Shimizu Toshi, as well as the photographer SoichiSunami. He apparently had a very successful career, until the beginning of...
also through St. Denis that Guy met Japanese-American photographer SoichiSunami, who took some of the few surviving portraits of her. After three years...
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