, 1935-15 October 2016 was a versatile

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, active since the 1960s.

Life and work

Born in

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) on 25 February 1935, Tomiyama dropped out of evening high school in 1956 to study photography for himself.Yoshiko Suzuki (, ''Suzuki Yoshiko''), "Tomiyama Haruo", ''Nihon shashinka jiten'' () / ''328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers'' (Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000; ), p.224. All in Japanese, despite the alternative title. From 1960 he was employed as a photographer for the new magazine ''

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''; from 1963 he was employed by Asahi Shinbunsha (publisher of ''

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''), and in the following year he started "Gendai gokan" for the company's news weekly '' Asahi Journal.'' The series — the literal meaning of whose title is something like "a sense for the contemporary language" — won Tomiyama the 1966 newcomer's prize of Nihon Shashin Hihyōka Kyōkai (). In 1966 Tomiyama became a freelance, making extensive travels abroad. Tomiyama's book ''Sadogashima'' (), a collection of photographs of

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published in 1978/79, won the Kodansha Publishing Culture Award () for a work of photography and the PSJ annual award. In 1994 Tomiyama was shown the archive of glass plates by the then-forgotten Sado-based amateur photographer

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. He printed many of these and acted as editor in chief for the first major collection of Kondō's works. This won him the PSJ annual award for a second time. Tomiyama's works are in the permanent collection of the

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and the

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Exhibitions

*"Japan Today".

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), 1978.Exhibition notice for "Tomiyama Haruo no Sadogashima"
Canon. Accessed 7 December 2009. *Digital photography exhibition for the 50th anniversary of the People's Republic of China.

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, 1999. *"Zen shūgyō" (). Wako (

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, Tokyo), 2002. *"Tomiyama Haruo no Sadogashima" (). Canon Salon (Tokyo), 2003. *"Gendai gokan: our day" (). JCII Photo Salon ( Ichibanchō, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo), 2008. *"Maboroshi no chōtokkyū Ajia-go" (). Gallery Walk, Shiodome Media Tower (

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, Tokyo), 2009.

Books

Books of Tomiyama's work

*''Tōkyō no 12-shō'' (). Kyoto: Tankōshinsha, 1963. With Yasaburō Ikeda and Kiyoshi Fujikawa. The title means "Twelve chapters of Tokyo". *''Gendai gokan'' (). Eizō no Gendai 6. Tokyo: Chūōkōronsha, 1971. *''Sadogashima'' (). Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1979. A large book of black and white photographs of

. Captions and text in Japanese. *''Chūgoku'' (). 3 vols.　Tokyo: Nihon Kōtsū Kōsha, 1982. *''Jūnidaime Ichikawa Danjūrō: Shūmei zenkiroku'' (). Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1985. . Photographs of Ichikawa Danjūrō XII. *''Hokuō ni mau hannya'' (). Tokyo: the photographer, 1986. The title means " Paññā dancing in northern Europe". *''Gendai gokan: 1961–1999'' (). Beijing, 1999. * ''Zen shūgyō'' (). Tokyo: Sōtōshū Shūmuchō, 2002. On

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training, published by the

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school. * ''Gekkō no kizuna: Wakaki Ikeda Daisaku, 1972-nen no kioku'' (). Tokyo: Usio, 2002. . Photos taken in 1972 of the Buddhist magnate

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, from the

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publisher. The title means "The bonds of moonlight: Young Daisaku Ikeda, memories of 1972." *''Gendai gokan: 1960–2004 our day'' (). Tokyo: Kōdansha, 2004. . *''Gendai gokan: 1960–2008 our day'' (). JCII Photo Salon Library 207. Tokyo: JCII, 2008.

Other books with contributions by Tomiyama

*''Ningen kakumei no kiroku'' () / ''The Document of Human Revolution.'' Tokyo: Shashin-hyōronsha, 1973. With

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. *''Nihon no banka: Ushinaware yuku kurashi no katachi'' (). Tokyo: Kadokawa-shoten, 1979. With Tetsurō Morimoto. *''Kyōgeki'' (). 2 vols. Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1980. With others. *''Shigosen no matsuri: Yamamoto Yasue no kai kōen'' (). Tokyo: Iwanami Hall, 1980. With

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. Title means "Festival of the meridian: Lectures of the

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society". *''Tōkyō: Toshi no shisen'' () / ''Tokyo: A City Perspective.'' Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1990. Exhibition catalogue. *''Nihon shashin no tenkan: 1960 nendai no hyōgen'' () / ''Innovation in Japanese Photography in the 1960s.'' Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1991. Exhibition catalogue. *''Sado mangekyō'' (). Matsumoto: Kyōdo Shuppansha (), 1994. . Tomiyama is the editor. A generous anthology of photography of

, showing family life, farming, tourism, new technology, popular spectacles, and much else. The title means "Sado kaleidoscope".Bibliographically this book is a little problematic: the colophon says whereas the title page says / Sado Island / 1917～1945. But it's clear that is meant as the main title.

References

External links

Tomiyama's site

Tomiyama's blog
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