Eikoh Hosoe

Known for: Barakei (1963) and collaboration with Yukio Mishima

Eikoh Hosoe co-founded the Vivo collective in Tokyo in 1959 and developed a photographic practice of psychological intensity informed by Shinto ritual and postwar Japanese culture. His collaboration with the novelist Yukio Mishima produced Barakei (Ordeal by Roses, 1963), an exploration of the male body and Japanese militarism. He taught at the Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics for decades and was central to the internationalization of Japanese photography.