Akira Gomi

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Akira Gomi(五味 彬,Gomi Akira, born 1953) is a Japanese photographer whose work focuses on beauty across racial lines. His work is in the style of Laurie Toby Edison. [1]

Japanese people ethnic group native to Japan

Japanese people are a nation and an ethnic group that is native to Japan and makes up 98.5% of the total population of the country. Worldwide, approximately 129 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 125 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live outside Japan are referred to as nikkeijin(日系人), the Japanese diaspora. The term ethnic Japanese is often used to refer to Japanese people, as well as to more specific ethnic groups in some contexts, such as Yamato people and Ryukyuan people. Japanese are one of the largest ethnic groups in the world.

Laurie Toby Edison American artist

Laurie Toby Edison is an American artist, portrait photographer, and visual activist. Much of Edison's work is black-and-white fine art photography, with an underlying social change message, which she often phrases as "making the invisible visible.” She has published two books of photographs: a series of nude environmental portraits of fat women, and a series of nude environmental portraits of a very diverse cross-section of men, plus a photo essay of clothed environmental portraits of women in Japan. Her current work-in-progress is "Memory Landscapes: A Visual Memoir."

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Education

Gomi graduated Nihon University, Dept. of Photography in 1977. He studied with Laurence Sackman and Michel Benton and then returned to Japan in 1983. [2]

Nihon University private university in Tokyo, Japan

Nihon University, abbreviated as Nichidai (日大), is a private research university in Japan. Yamada Akiyoshi, the Minister of Justice, founded Nihon Law School, currently the Department of Law, in October 1889.

Photography career

Gomi established a company in 1993 called Digitalogue which produces multimedia photography works. At that time, he began to publish a series of books on photos of women of different races, with an emphasis on anatomical differences, [3] [4] in the style of William Herbert Sheldon's Ivy League nude posture photos.

William Herbert Sheldon American psychologist

William Herbert Sheldon, Jr. was an American psychologist and numismatist. He created the field of somatotype and constitutional psychology that correlate body types with Temperament, illustrated by his Ivy League nude posture photos.

The Ivy League nude posture photos were taken in the 1940s through the 1970s of all incoming freshmen at certain Ivy League and Seven Sisters colleges, ostensibly to gauge the rate and severity of rickets, scoliosis, and lordosis in the population. The photos are simple black and white images of each individual standing upright from front, back and side perspectives. Harvard previously had its own such program from the 1880s to the 1940s. The larger project was run by William Herbert Sheldon and Earnest Albert Hooton, who may have been using the data to support their theory on body types and social hierarchy. What remained of the images were transferred to the Smithsonian and most were destroyed between 1995 and 2001.

In 1998, his work focused on the subject of loose socks. [5] [6]

Loose socks baggy sock worn by Japanese high school girls and adopted by anime fans

Loose socks are a style of baggy sock worn by Japanese high school girls, as part of kogal culture. This style of socks has also become popular among American teens and college students who are fans of Japanese anime and manga. These socks come in a variety of styles—defined by the knitting pattern of the upper. The two most popular styles are the traditional 2×2 rib knit (pictured) and tube-style loose socks, which are thigh-high length tube socks worn pushed down around the ankles.

Publications

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Notes

  1. ↑ Body impolitic: The Marlboro Man Meets the Campaign for Real Beauty 2005
  2. ↑ Zoominfo profile
  3. ↑ Akira Gomi
  4. ↑ 五味彬
  5. ↑ Last Loose Socks 1997
  6. ↑ Akira Gomi Exhibition
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