Nakayama

Iwata (1895-1949). Japanese photographer. Having completed his studies at the School of Fine Art in Tokyo, he left with a scholarship for the United States in 1918 and, in 1921, opened a studio in New York. Five years later he moved to Paris, to a new atelier, where he worked in fashion photography. He became part of the art scene and met Man Ray, whose research profoundly influenced Nakayama’s style, which was first linked to pictorialism, and afterwards to photomontage and off-camera images. In 1927, he returned to Japan and became a point of reference for avant-garde photography in his own country.