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Profile of Ichiro MIYAGAWA
Born 1947, in Kyoto.
Some works of art are time-based in that the viewer must experience them through the passage of time, as with music. Miyagawa first became intrigued with the means to express and convey such art as well as with visual language in the 1970s, and began experimenting with painting, photography, graphic design, advertising and bookbinding. In 1985, he ventured into the field of computer-aided production. In 1991, he founded Visual Language Co.
His father was the preeminent Japanese cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa whose credits include such films as Rashomon and Ugetsu-monogatari.
His current focus is in creative directing and art direction.
Over the years, he has continued to pursue his various interests, resulting in a collection of over 5,000 unreleased works, including photos, objet de arts, paintings and computer graphics, created for his own benefit. In January 2011, he began the process of gradually uploading them on to his website. He is subsequently preparing an electronic publication of his collection; a 30 volume series titled ‘Landscape’.