Kikuji Kawada (川田 喜久治, Kawada Kikuji, born 1933) is a Japanese photographer.[1][2] He co-founded the Vivo photographic collective in 1959.[3] Kawada's books include Chizu (The Map; 1965) and The Last Cosmology (1995).[4] He was included in the New Japanese Photography exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1974[5] and was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Photographic Society of Japan in 2011.[6]
^(in Japanese) Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, editor. 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers (『日本写真家事典』, Nihon shashinka jiten). Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN4-473-01750-8
^Kōtarō Iizawa, "The evolution of postwar photography" (chapter of Tucker et al., The History of Japanese Photography), pp. 217, 210.