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 photographer.

Shinoyama graduated from Nihon University

Nihon University

Nihon University is the largest university in Japan. Akiyoshi Yamada, the minister of justice, founded Nihon Law School in October 1889....

. He worked with the Light Publicity agency while still a student, and freelanced after graduation.

Shinoyama has put out a large number of books of photographs of girls, dressed, mostly undressed, and nude.

On November 10, 2009 Shinoyama's home and office were searched by police on suspicion of public indecency. The searches stemmed from concerns regarding nude photos he allegedly took in public of two women in August 2008 for his book 20XX TOKYO.

He is married to Saori Minami and their son is actor Akinobu Shinoyama.

Books devoted to Shinoyama's works

This list is incomplete. / Sir John Soane's Museum. Tokyo: Rokuyōsha, 1989. ISBN 9784897370118. Text by Arata Isozaki

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. A detailed study of Sir John Soane's Museum (London).

• Santa Fe. Tokyo: Asahi Shuppansha, 1991. ISBN 4255910464. Rie Miyazawa
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  , nude. (See Santa Fe
  Santa Fe (nude photo book)
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  .) The Painter's House: Balthus at the Grand Chalet. Te Neues, 2000. ISBN 978-3823854722. Photographs of the extraordinarily large house of the Balthus family, and Balthus
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   himself, his wife and their daughter.
• Kissin' My Puppy. Tokyo: Rasukaru, 2005. ISBN 978-4902388053. Japan's and their dogs. The minimal text is in Japanese.
• Shinoyama Kishin at Tokyo Disney Resort. Tokyo: Kodansha, 2008. ISBN 978-4063397581. Commemorative collection of photographs taken at Tokyo Disney Resort
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   theme park for its 25th Anniversary celebrations.

Other books showing Shinoyama's works

Nihon nūdo meisakushū . Camera Mainichi bessatsu. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1982. Pp.24–25, 222–27 show nudes by Shinoyama.

• Nihon shashin no tenkan: 1960 nendai no hyōgen / Innovation in Japanese Photography in the 1960s. Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1991. Exhibition catalogue, text in Japanese and English. Pp.124–29 show nudes by Shinoyama.

Works

• Five Seasons / Matsuda Seiko (1986)
• 135 Women
• Girls of Okinawa
• The Geisha Series
• Santa Fe/Rie Miyazawa
• Yukio Mishima's House
• Ningen Kankei
• Double Fantasy
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  - cover photography of John Lennon
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   and Yoko Ono
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• 20XX TOKYO

External links

• Official Website (Japanese)
• Photography Now: three extremely brief exhibition notices.