Biografie von Frank Asakichi KUNISHIGE (1878-1960)

Addresses: Seattle, WA

Profession: Photographer

Studied: attended photography school in Chicago in 1911

Exhibited: Pittsburgh Salon, 1925; Ft. Wayne Salon, 1925; Midland Salon, 1925; New Westminster Salon, 1925; Worcester Salon, 1925; Seattle Salon, 1925; Paris Salon, 1925; Liverpool Salon, 1925; Portsmouth Salon, 1925; Bridge of Allan, Glasgow, Poland Salon, 1927; First Salon of Japan, 1927; 12th Hammersmith Hampshire House Exh., London, England, 1927; Seattle International Exhib., 1927; San Fran. Salon, 1928; Leicester Open Exhib., 1928; Eighth Buffalo Salon, Newark Camera Cl.; Ft. Dearborn Camera Cl.; 65th Edinburgh Salon, Scotland; 36th Ann. Birmingham Exhib., Croydon Exhib., 7th New Westminster Salon, 72nd Royal Salon, London, all England; Toronto Salon; 15th Annual Pittsburgh Salon; Bethune Salon, France; Ottawa Salon, Canada

Comments: Pictorialist photographer. Arrived in the United States from Japan in 1896, opening a photography studio in San Francisco around 1912. Worked in Seattle in the studios of Edward Curtis and Ella McBride throughout the 1920s, and freelanced. He photographed dancers and artists from the Cornish School of the Arts in Seattle in the 1920s and developed photographic printing paper "Textura Tissue." Moved to Twin Falls Idaho, was interned during WWII, and returned to Seattle after the war.

Sources: info. courtesy Martin-Zambito Fine Art, Seattle, Wash.