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 majority of the photographs for her album covers with CBS/Sony.
Shinoyama put out a large number of books of photographs of girls, dressed, mostly undressed, and nude. Shinoyama was married to Saori Minami and their son is actor Akinobu Shinoyama. Kishin Shinoyama died on January 4, 2024, at the age of 83.