[1] He is particularly well known for his unidealized nudes of "ordinary" Japanese women executed in both pictorialist and modernist styles.
From 1915 to 1920 he ran a gallery, the Misaka Photo Shop, where he had his first solo exhibition in 1920.
Around that same time he opened the Kabutoya Gado gallery, which was connected to the shirakaba-ha literary movement.
Nojima later operated several other studios, such as the Nonomiya Photography Studio, and Nojima Tei, which was a salon based in his house.
[3] In 1984 Nojima was posthumously inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum.