Fusako Kodama
Life and career. Kodama was born in Wakayama City (Wakayama Prefecture, Japan) in 1945. She graduated from Kuwasawa Design School in 1967. She then worked as a photographer for a company named Le Mars (). In 1990 "Grafication", a PR magazine of Fuji Xerox, published a series of pieces by Kodama that were later collected into her first photobook, "Criteria." With its depiction of nuclear power plants and other scenes of advanced technology, this book was widely noted as a remarkable document. This was followed by depictions of street life in the metropolis, in the photobook "Tokyo Kinetic" and  various exhibitions. In 1993, Kodama won the Annual Award of the Photographic Society of Japan. From April 1993 to March 1995, the magazine "Asahi Camera" ran a series by her, "Tokyo Cruising." Collections. The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography possesses twenty prints by Kodama of Tokyo and Tokyo Bay, dating from 1970 to 1977. Video. Together with Miho Akioka, Miyako Ishiuchi, Yuri Nagahara, Hiroko Matsuo and Michiko Matsumoto, Kodama is interviewed within the video "6 works and 6 artists."