Koyo Okada - Mount Fuji - image-1

Lot 539 D

Koyo Okada - Mount Fuji

Auction 1189 - overview Cologne
03.12.2021, 14:00 - Photography
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 3.500 € (incl. premium)

Koyo Okada

Mount Fuji
c. 1950

Vintage gelatin silver print. 27.8 x 45.5 cm. Signed in Japanese script in Indian ink lower right. - Matted. Accompanied by the back of original frame, two labels with typewritten information on the image in Japanese script and annotated in an unknown hand in Japanese script in Indian ink on the reverse.

Koyo Okada's passionate and persistent preoccupation with Mount Fuji began as early as 1916. He photographed Japan's famous mountain across six decades, from changing perspectives and by various weather conditions, producing some 400,000 pictures. Okada organised numerous exhibitions and published several photo books dedicated to the volcano, which is revered as sacred in Japan and is by nature extremely photogenic due to its harmonious form.