Kishin Shinoyama was a Japanese photographer. He is well-known for having photographed the covers for John Lennon and Yoko Ono's albums, Double Fantasy and Milk and Honey. Before his marriage to Saori Minami in 1979, he took a majority of the photographs for her album covers with CBS/Sony.
Shinoyama at Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 2015
Kishin Shinoyama and two female models, Southern France, 1975. The photograph was taken during a workshop of '6èmes Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie', Arles, 1975, on a nude beach near Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. The feet shown in the upper-right corner are American photographer Ralph Gibson's.
Double Fantasy is the fifth studio album by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and the final one to feature Lennon before his death. Released in November 1980 on Geffen Records, the album marked Lennon's return to recording music full-time, following his five-year hiatus to raise his son Sean. Recording sessions took place at the Hit Factory in New York City between August and October 1980. The final album features songs from both Lennon and Ono, largely alternating between the two in its track listing. Other tracks recorded by Lennon from the sessions were compiled by Ono for release on Milk and Honey in 1984.
Cover of the 2010 remix with stripped down production.
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John Lennon in 1980.
