Sakae Tamura (photographer)
was a Japanese photographer, prominent in the years before the war. Born in Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, Tamura graduated from the Tokyo College of Photography (, ''Tōkyō Shashin Senmon Gakkō''; now Tokyo Polytechnic University) and entered Oriental (, ''Orientaru Shashin Kōgyō'') in 1928 and became editor of ''.'' He was an active contributor to the magazine ' and in Japan Photography Association (, Nihon Kōga Kyōkai), created in 1928 and a successor to the Japan Photographic Art Association (, Nihon Kōga Geijutsu Kyōkai). He was a leading figure in the (, ''Shinkō Shashin Kenkyūkai''), formed in 1930. Tamura's work was influenced both by pictorialism and by . Tamura is particularly known for his portraits, and ''Shiroi hana'' (, White flower, 1931) is the best-known of these and widely anthologized. Okatsuka says that it expresses a certain lyricism but “displays a more sophisticated sense of maturity” than the works of his contemporaries Masataka Takayama and Ju ...
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