Michio Hoshino
Michio Hoshino ( Japanese 星野 道夫 , Hoshino Michio ; born September 27, 1952 in Ichikawa ; † August 8, 1996 at Kurilensee , Kamchatka ) was a well-known nature photographer of Japanese origin who has lived in Fairbanks , Alaska , USA since 1978 .
Life
Hoshino was born in the Japanese prefecture of Chiba on the southeastern edge of the island of Honshu . At the age of 16, he hitchhiked around Mexico , the United States, and Canada . He had his first contact with Alaska through a publication of the National Geographic Society about this US state, which kept him very busy and never let go. In the summer of 1972, at the age of 19, Hoshino went on a two-week trip to the US state of Alaska and was so impressed that he stayed for three months and, at the age of 25, moved from Japan to Alaska in 1978 .
He studied economics at Keiō University in Tokyo . After completing this degree, he studied Wildlife Management at the University of Alaska .
Hoshino specialized in the photography of wild animals in Alaska, but also undertook photo and film expeditions to other countries as commissioned work. He published fifteen photo and essay collections. His photographs have appeared in renowned magazines such as National Geographic , GEO and Audubon ( National Audubon Society ). In 1986 Hoshino was awarded the 3rd Anima Prize for Wildlife Photography, in 1989 the 15th Kimura Ihei Shashin-shō ( 木村 伊 兵衛 写真 賞 , German "Kimura Ihei Photography Prize", English Kimura Ihei Memorial Award of Photography ), the most important Recognition for artistic photography in Japan.
At the age of only 43 he was killed by a bear in the remote brown bear sanctuary in the south of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula near Lake Kuril when he was there to make a documentary about the brown bears for a Japanese TV station . The bear took Hoshino out of his tent at night and dragged him into the nearby forest. His body was found there the next day. Michio Hoshino left behind his wife Naoko and his son Shoma, who was only 2 years old in 1996. Its ashes remain in Japan, but some of them have been scattered in Denali National Park .
In his book The Trail of the Blue Bear, Lynn Schooler tells the story of his long friendship with the Japanese-born photographer from whom he learned to take pictures. Lynn Schooler wrote the foreword for the English book Hoshino's Alaska .
“He (Michio Hoshino) taught me to look with my eyes but to see with the heart. That was a very important lesson for me. More than just photography. "
In memory of the outstanding photographer and his work, a totem pole was erected on the anniversary of Michio Hoshino's death, August 8, 2008, in Sitka, Alaska . Relatives, including his widow and others, had traveled from Japan to do this.
Publications
- Hoshino, Michio: Arctic Odyssey - In the land of the Eskimos . Tecklenborg, 1999, ISBN 3-924044-48-1
- Hoshino, Michio: The Bear Children's Book . Findling, 2004, ISBN 3-937054-63-4
- Hoshino, Michio: Grizzly . Chronicle Books, 1987, ISBN 0877014310 , ISBN 978-0877014317
- Hoshino, Michio: Mosses . Chronicle Books, 1988, ISBN 0877014949 , ISBN 978-0877014942
- Hoshino, Michio: Nanook's Gift . Cadence Books, 1996, ISBN 1569311471 , ISBN 978-1569311479
- Hoshino, Michio: The Grizzly Bear Family Book . North South Books, 1997, ISBN 1558587012 , ISBN 978-1558587014
- Hoshino, Michio: Hoshino's Alaska . Foreword by Lynn Schooler, Chronicle Books, 2007, ISBN 0811856518 , ISBN 978-0811856515
- Schooler, Lynn: The Blue Bear Trail . Hanser, 2002, ISBN 3-446-20236-6
Video on demand
Web links
- Michio Hoshino - Homepage (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short biography of Michio Hoshino at the University of Alaska ( Memento of the original from September 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: uaf.edu
- ↑ Michio Hoshino, author profile at Braided River ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: braidedriver.org
- ^ "Lynn Schooler on The Blue Bear". Author interview with Lynn Schooler at Harper Collins at: harpercollins.com
- ↑ "Of Bears and Men". In: 3SAT Kulturzeit ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: 3sat.de (accessed: May 13, 2009, 11:00 p.m. CEST)
- ↑ Michio Hoshino Dies While Filming Bears . In: The New York Times , September 22, 1996 at nytimes.com
- ↑ KCAW, Public Radio in Sitka, Alaska, message from August 1, 2008 ( memento of the original from May 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: kcaw.org (accessed: May 13, 2009, 11:00 p.m. CEST)
- ↑ KCAW, Public Radio in Sitka, Alaska, message from August 11, 2008 ( memento of the original from January 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on kcaw.org (accessed: May 13, 2009, 11:00 p.m. CEST)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoshino, Michio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 星野 道夫 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese nature photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ichikawa , Chiba Prefecture |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 8, 1996 |
| Place of death | Kuril Lake , Kamchatka |