Akira Gomi Biography

*anese photographer

Akira Gomi (五味彬, Gomi Akira, born 1953) is a *anese photographer whose work focuses on beauty across racial lines. His work is in the style of Laurie Toby Edison.

Education

Gomi graduated Nihon University, Dept. of Photography in 1976. He studied with Laurence Sackman and Michel Benton and then returned to *an in 1983.

Photography career

Gomi established a company in 1993 called Digitalogue which produces multimedia photography works. At that time, he began to publish a series of books on photos of women of different races, with an emphasis on anatomical differences, in the style of William Herbert Sheldon's Ivy League nude posture photos.

In 1998, his work focused on the subject of loose socks.

Publications

Nude of J. (with Toni Meneguzzo) (1991)
Americans 1.0, Los Angeles 1994 (1994) ISBN:978-4-89424-018-6
Americans 1.0 Los Angeles (1994) CD-ROM
Yellows 2.0 Tokyo 1993 (1994) CD-ROM
Yellows 3.0 China 1994 (1994)
Yellows Privacy (1994) CD-ROM
Yellows Men (with Kaz Katayama) (1995) ISBN:4-89424-052-1
Yellows: Contemporary Girls (1997) CD-ROM
Americans 1.0 (1998) ISBN:978-4-82112-246-2
Yellows 1.0 1991 (1999)

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External links

Official website