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, Shiga Prefecture, Tamura graduated from the Tokyo College of Photography (, ''Tōkyō Shashin Senmon Gakkō''; now

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) 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

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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

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Books by Tamura

*''Seibutsu shashin no utsushikata'' (). Tokyo: Sōgeisha, 1952. A guide to photographing still lifes. *''Sakuga no daiippo'' (On the cover, a nonstandard glyph is used for 画: 二 enclosing 田.). Tokyo: Genkōsha, 1954. A guide to the practice of photography.

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Sources

* Kaneko Ryūichi. “The Origins and Development of Japanese Art Photography.” Pp. 100–42 of Tucker, ed., ''History.'' Pp. 110–13, 137. *Matsuda Takako. “Tamura Sakae”. In Tucker, ed., ''History,'' p. 363. *

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. (), ed. ''A Collection of Japanese Photographs 1912–1940.'' Tokyo: Shashinkosha, 1990. Despite its English-only title, the book is in Japanese only. It is a lavish production (if unpaginated), not offered for sale and instead presumably distributed to customers. *''Nihon kindai shashin no seiritsu to tenkai'' () / ''The Founding and Development of Modern Photography in Japan.'' Tokyo: Tokyo Museum of Photography, 1995. *''Nihon no shashinka'' () / ''Biographic Dictionary of Japanese Photography.'' Tokyo: Nichigai Associates, 2005. . Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese. *''Taidan: Shashin kono gojūnen'' (, Discussions: The last fifty years of photography). Edited by the staff of ''

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interviews Tamura in chapter 7, "Shinkō shashin tezukuri no aji" (). *Tucker, Anne Wilkes, et al. ''The History of Japanese Photography.'' New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. . {{DEFAULTSORT:Tamura, Sakae 1906 births 1987 deaths Japanese photographers Portrait photographers People from Ōtsu, Shiga Writers on photographic techniques