is a

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. Born in

Shinagawa is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. The Ward refers to itself as Shinagawa City in English. The Ward is home to ten embassies. , the Ward had an estimated population of 380,293 and a population density of 16,510 persons per km2. The total are ...

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, in 1941, Akiyama studied in the Faculty of Political Science of

Waseda University , mottoeng = Independence of scholarship , established = 21 October 1882 , type = Private , endowment = , president = Aiji Tanaka , city = Shinjuku , state = Tokyo , country = Japan , students = 47,959 , undergrad = 39,382 , postgrad ...

and then went to

Tokyo College of Photography The was set up in Nakano, Tokyo in 1958, as Tokyo Photo School (, ''Tōkyō Foto Sukūru''); its current name dates from 1960. During the 1960s, it moved to Hiyoshi (Yokohama), where it has remained. Notable graduates * Tadasuke Akiyama * Tak ...

, graduating in 1964. He became an assistant to

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but very quickly turned freelance. With Haruo Satō, he created ''Wakai gunzō'' (), a series of photographs of young people within crowds, taken close up with a wide-angle lens that won acclaim; it led to a series of collaborations with Satō. Akiyama traveled to east and west Europe just before the destruction of the Berlin Wall; he also photographed carnivals in the

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at around this time. Akiyama taught at Punjab College of Photography from 1970.

Books by Akiyama

*''Kokkyō Rurō'' (). Tokyo: Heibonsha, 2010. . *''Kūsatsu Dai-Tōkyō'' (). Tokyo: Shōbunsha, 1991. . *''Nihon kūchū kikō'' () / ''Sky Landscape.'' Tokyo: Jiji Tsūshin, 1994. . *''Kokkyō Rurō'' () / ''Wandering about the Boundaries.'' 2 vols. Kyoto: Kyōto Shorin, 1998. (vol. 1), (vol. 2). *''Nippon air scope: Tori no yō ni kaze no yō ni'' (Nippon air scope: ). Kyoto: Kyōto Shorin, 1999. . *''Tokyo air scope: Kūchū ni sankyaku o tateru'' (). Kyoto: Kyōto Shorin, 1999. . * ''Farmer.'' Tokyo: Tōseisha, 2000. . * ''Nogyō o yarō!'' (). Tokyo: Sankaidō, 2000. .

References

*''Nihon shashinka jiten'' () / ''328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers.'' Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. . P.20. Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese. Japanese photographers 1941 births Living people People from Shinagawa Tokyo College of Photography alumni {{Japan-photographer-stub