Book Description
This exhibition and accompanying publication is the first in-depth study of the life and photography of Soichi Sunami (1885-1971). Soichi Sunami was born in Okayama, Japan, on February 18, 1885. He emigrated to the United States in 1905 and arrived in Seattle on February 24, 1907. His occupation was secured by 1930, when Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. asked him to become the photographer for the recently opened Museum of Modern Art (MOMA). For the next thirty-eight years, he produced more than twenty thousand large-format negatives for the archive of the museum. Using his initial contacts from Seattle, Sunami went on to produce one of the most important bodies of work in the field of dance photography. During his lifetime, his photographs appeared in numerous national and international publications.00Exhibition: Cascadia Art Museum, Edmonds, Washington (11.10.2018-06.01.2019).