# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shigeo-anzai
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:25:25.319Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shigeo-anzai"
name: "Shigeo Anzai"
slug: "shigeo-anzai"
description: "Shigeo Anzai  was a Japanese photographer. A self-professed \"art documentarist\", Anzai is well-known for his prolific photographic documentation of artworks, exhibitions, and events of his time. He is also known for intimate portraits of popular modern and contemporary artists, which cast their subjects in an unexpected, unposed, and humanizing light. As Anzai noted for Artforum, he was interested in the \"humanity\" of his subjects, or the human being within the artist, rather than the artist within the human being. Anzai's style of portraiture stands in contrast to the popular modes of portrait photography of the time which monumentalized their subjects, as in the work of Hans Namuth. Anzai is known for his snapshots of artists such as Shuzo Takiguchi, Atsuko Tanaka, Yayoi Kusama, Tetsumi Kudo, Joseph Beuys, and Isamu Noguchi, among others."
tagline: "Japanese photographer (1939–2020)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1939"
deathDate: "2020-08-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.29
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.672930666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeo_Anzai"
    title: "Shigeo Anzai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%BA%D9%8A%D9%88_%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%8A"
    title: "شيغيو أنزاي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0igeo_Anzai"
    title: "Šigeo Anzai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%89%E9%BD%8A%E9%87%8D%E7%94%B7"
    title: "安齊重男"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeo_Anzai"
    title: "Shigeo Anzai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%89%E9%BD%8A%E9%87%8D%E7%94%B7"
    title: "安齊重男"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7496358"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump