active them. Post-WWII After the war, Kobayashi begins to summit his work to other photography magazines including Photography. In 1948, he decides to join the Bijutsu Bunka Kyokai ("Fine Art and Culture Association") which was a society of avant-garde artists. In this organization, he became the head of the photography section and submitted his works in exhibitions that the association held in Kyoto as well as Tokyo. Through working with the Bijutsu Bunka Kyokai, Kobayashi became aquatinted with avant-garde painters such as Gentarō Komaki, Nobuya Abe, Noboru Kitawaki, and others. Although Kobayashi's photographic works and the techniques that he employed were already leaning towards the avant-garde, the influences that he absorbed through working with a self-identified society of avant-garde artists encouraged him in his intellectual trajectory. In 1975, he joined the Panreal Art Association, a group of avant-garde artists. As a photographer he continued to contribute experimental photographs to the organization's group exhibitions through the latter part of his career. In 1980, he had his first solo exhibition at Kyoto Asahi Hall, exhibiting color photo montage works. In 1988, his works were exhibited in the FotoFest ’88 based in Houston, Texas. Kobayashi passed away in Kyoto City in 1988. References Japanese photographers 1898 births 1988 deaths