Kishin Shinoyama (1940–2024)
We are saddened to hear of the passing of Kishin Shinoyama. Shinoyama started working as a freelance photographer in 1968 and gained fame for his portraits, including those of Yukio Mishima, Momoe Yamaguchi, Rie Miyazawa, and John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
His 1980 photoshoot with John Lennon and Yoko Ono produced some of the last images of John ever taken. As a photographer, Shinoyama had a keen awareness of fleeting time and was a master of both new methods of expression and naturalism. It was Yoko Ono’s idea for him to create the book Double Fantasy, calling the photographs from their 5‑day shoot together “images of my happiest time”.
Kishin Shinoyama introduces his beautiful portrait series of John Lennon & Yoko Ono:
Kishin Shinoyama’s widely unseen portrait series of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, shot at Ono’s request for the cover of the couple’s 1980 album, Double Fantasy. With exceptional access to the couple’s private apartment, Shinoyama immortalizes this iconic couple at a decisive moment in their personal and creative relationship, and just three months before John Lennon’s untimely death.
Watch video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYJLXPMtShE&t=174s
JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO DOUBLE FANTASY By Kishin Shinoyama Edition of 1,730.Collector’s Edition. Signed by Yoko Ono & Kishin Shinoyama. Edition of 1,730 Hardcover in clamshell box, clothbound,5.78kg, 174 pages.Multilingual Edition: English, French, German, Japanese. Unseen portrait series.
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