Eikoh Hosoe transcended the conventions of photographic practice and transformed the ways we think about photography, overhauling what it meant to be a professional photographer in post-1945 Japan.
Mr. Hosoe's work was both cinematic and painterly, evident in works like 'Man and Woman,' where nudes are composed as abstract sculptural objects, creating gorgeous and graphic still lifes.
In the mid-1960s, Mr. Hosoe cast the dancer Tatsumi Hijikata as a mythical creature known as Kamaitachi, illustrating his theme of life and death through art.
There was no artist like Eikoh Hosoe, who helped free photography from its insular past, making him a pivotal figure in the evolution of Japanese art.
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