NAKAYAMA Iwata

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NAKAYAMA Iwata 中山 岩太 (1895.8.3-1949.1.20) Tokyo. Best known for surreal and sometimes erotic B/W photomontages.

Education Graduated Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko photo dept. in 1918.

Career Went to America as a trainee for the Agricultural Ministry. Worked at Kikuchi Studio (operated by KIKUCHI Toyo) in New York in 1919.

Established Rakan Studio on 5th Avenue with wife Masako in 1921. Sold the studio and went to France in 1926. Returned to Japan in 1927 via the Trans-Siberian Railroad. Moved from Tokyo to Ashiya in Hyogo Pref. in 1929.

Formed the Ashiya Camera Club with HANAYA Kanbe'e and others in 1930. Established Koga magazine with KIMURA Ihee and NOJIMA Yasuzo. Went to Manchuria in 1940 upon the invitation of the Manchurian Railway. (2001.1.18)

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