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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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo Polytechnic University
is a private university in Honchō, Nakano, Tokyo. Its nickname is ''Shadai'' (写大). It was formerly known as Tokyo College of Photography (, ''Tōkyō Shashin Daigaku''). The university was founded as Konishi Professional School of Photography in Shibuya in 1923. The founder, Rokuemon Sugiura VII, was the president of Konishi Main Shop (later Konica) at that time and founded the school to fulfil the wish of Rokuemon Sugiura VI, the previous president. Since 2007, the university has offered courses in manga studies and animation studies. Tokyo Polytechnic is also notable for being one of the few universities in Japan to have a game design department, with its faculty including such notable practitioners as Pac-Man creator Toru Iwatani and Xevious creator Masanobu Endō. The university also operates the Suginami Animation Museum, which focuses on the history and future of the animation industry in Japan. Alumni * Akitaro Daichi *Eikoh Hosoe (photographer) *Yoko Kamio *Takashi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pictorialism
Pictorialism is an international style and aesthetic movement that dominated photography during the later 19th and early 20th centuries. There is no standard definition of the term, but in general it refers to a style in which the photographer has somehow manipulated what would otherwise be a straightforward photograph as a means of creating an image rather than simply recording it. Typically, a pictorial photograph appears to lack a sharp focus (some more so than others), is printed in one or more colors other than black-and-white (ranging from warm brown to deep blue) and may have visible brush strokes or other manipulation of the surface. For the pictorialist, a photograph, like a painting, drawing or engraving, was a way of projecting an emotional intent into the viewer's realm of imagination. Pictorialism as a movement thrived from about 1885 to 1915, although it was still being promoted by some as late as the 1940s. It began in response to claims that a photograph was nothin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masataka Takayama (photographer)
Masataka Takayama (高山 正隆, ''Takayama Masataka''; 15 May 1895 - 14 April 1981) was one of the most prominent Japanese photographers in the first half of the twentieth century. Takayama was born in Tokyo, Japan. As an amateur photographer, he published many of his works in the magazine ''Geijutsu Shashin Kenkyū'' (芸術写真研究), beginning in the 1920s. He remained an active photographer even after World War II. He was talented at pictorialist (art) photography and took many photographs using a soft focus lens and deformation and "wipe-out" techniques. Takayama usually used a "vest-pocket" Kodak camera (a very compact folding model taking 127 film) with a single-element lens (a ''tangyoku'' lens in Japanese). These cameras (and Japanese derivatives such as the Rokuoh-sha Pearlette and Minolta Vest) were popular in Japan at the time for snapshot use, and called ''ves-tan'' (ベス単, in Japanese pronunciation The phonology of Japanese features about 15 con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jun Watanabe (photographer)
Jun Watanabe may refer to: * Jun Watanabe (architect) (born 1954), Japanese architect and former professor at Chubu University * Jun Watanabe (actor) (born 1982), Japanese stunt performer and suit actor See also * Jin Watanabe (other) * Watanabe, the fifth most common Japanese surname {{hndis, Watanabe, Jun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryūichi Kaneko
was a photography historian and critic, photobook collector, and curator. He also worked as a monk at the Shōgyōin () temple in the Taitō, Taitō district of Tokyo while he researched the history of Japanese photography. University days In 1967, Kaneko entered Rissho University, where he joined the photography club, affiliated with the All Japan Students Photo Association. Told by one of his university seniors to attend a lecture that the organization was holding, Kaneko went to the lecture hall to find :ja:福島辰夫, Tatsuo Fukushima, who had recently become the leader of the All Japan Students Photo Association. Though Fukushima’s lecture, Kaneko was exposed to works of western photographers like William Klein (photographer), William Klein's ''Life is Good & Good for You in New York: Trance Witness Revels''; Robert Frank's ''The Americans (photography), The Americans''; and Richard Avedon's ''Nothing Personal''; and also works of Japanese photographers like Shōmei Tō ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matsumoto Norihiko
is a Japanese writer on photography, and photographer. Born in Onomichi, Hiroshima, on 1 January 1936, Matsumoto graduated from Nihon University in 1958. He started to work for the publishing company while still a student, but went freelance in 1963, mostly working for corporate and other magazines. From 1964 his photography was mainly of the theatre.Masaaki Hirakata (), "Matsumoto Norihiko" (); page 288 within ''Nihon shashinka jiten'' () / ''328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers.'' Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. . Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese. Matsumoto has published numerous books about the history of Japanese photography. Eighteen prints by Matsumoto are in the collection of the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum The is an art museum concentrating on photography. As the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, it was founded by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and is in Meguro-ku, a short walk from Ebisu station in southwest Tokyo. The m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asahi Camera
was a Japanese monthly photographic magazine, published from April 1926 until July 2020, when it was discontinued due to declining circulation. History and profile The first issue was that for April 1926.During the twentieth century, Japanese monthly magazines routinely came out in the month before the cover date, or even the month before that. It was from the outset published by Asahi Shinbun-sha, publisher of the newspaper ''Asahi Shinbun.'' The headquarters was in Tokyo. From the January 1941 issue, it merged with the magazines ''Geijutsu Shashin Kenkyū'' (, "Technique Photograph Studies") and ''Shōzō Shashin Kenkyū'' (, "Portrait Photograph Studies"). Publication was suspended with the April 1942 issue. Publication resumed after the Second World War with the October 1949 issue. Its cover employed a monochrome portrait of a girl by Ihei Kimura, who would become a major contributor. ''Asahi Camera'' attempted to satisfy interests in all areas of photography, with short p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ihei Kimura
was a Japanese photographer, known for his portrayal of Tokyo and Akita Prefecture. Life and work Born on 12 December 1901 in Shitaya-ku (now Taitō-ku), Tokyo, Kimura started taking photographs when very young but his interest intensified when he was around 20 and living in Tainan, Taiwan, where he was working for a sugar wholesaler. He opened a photographic studio in Nippori, Tokyo in 1924. In 1930, he joined the advertising section of the soap and cosmetics company Kaō, concentrating on informal photographs made with his Leica camera. In 1933, he joined Yōnosuke Natori and others in forming the group Nippon Kōbō ("Japan workshop"), which emphasized "realism" in photography using 35mm cameras; but this rapidly broke up and Kimura formed an alternative group, Chūō Kōbō ("central workshop") with Nobuo Ina and others. During the war, Kimura worked in Manchuria and for the publisher Tōhō-sha. He edited ''Front'', the propaganda photo journal of the Tōhō-sha compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1906 Births
Events January–February * January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, and establish a national assembly, the Majlis. * January 16–April 7 – The Algeciras Conference convenes, to resolve the First Moroccan Crisis between France and Germany. * January 22 – The strikes a reef off Vancouver Island, Canada, killing over 100 (officially 136) in the ensuing disaster. * January 31 – The Ecuador–Colombia earthquake (8.8 on the Moment magnitude scale), and associated tsunami, cause at least 500 deaths. * February 7 – is launched, sparking a naval race between Britain and Germany. * February 11 ** Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical ''Vehementer Nos'', denouncing the 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State. ** Two British members of a poll tax collecting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1987 Deaths
File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, killing everyone except a little girl; The King's Cross fire kills 31 people after a fire under an escalator Flashover, flashes-over; The MV Doña Paz sinks after colliding with an oil tanker, drowning almost 4,400 passengers and crew; Typhoon Nina (1987), Typhoon Nina strikes the Philippines; LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 crashes outside of Warsaw, taking the lives of all aboard; The USS Stark is USS Stark incident, struck by Iraq, Iraqi Exocet missiles in the Persian Gulf; President of the United States, U.S. President Ronald Reagan gives a famous Tear down this wall!, speech, demanding that Soviet Union, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev tears down the Berlin Wall., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Zeebrugge disaster rect 200 0 400 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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