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photographer
A photographer (the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who makes photographs.
Duties and types of photographers
As in other ...
who has photographed fashion, urban design, and city life, and is best known for his depiction of
Tokyo
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.
Life and career
Takanashi was born on 6 February 1935 in Shirogane-chō, Ushigome-ku (now Shinjuku),
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, ...
."Chronology", ''Takanashi Yutaka: Hikari no fīrudonōto / Yutaka Takanashi: Field Notes of Light'' (Tokyo: National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 2009), p.160. This exhibition catalogue is referred to below as ''Field Notes of Light.'' In 1943 he was evacuated to Saitama ( Saitama). In 1953 he graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Aoyama High School and entered the photography department of
Nihon University
, abbreviated as , is a private university, private research university in Japan. Its predecessor, Nihon Law School (currently the Department of Law), was founded by Yamada Akiyoshi, the Minister of Justice (Japan), Minister of Justice, in 1889. ...
. His first camera was a
Canon
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IVSb 35 mm
rangefinder
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.
In 1956 Takanashi's photographs won awards from '' Sankei Camera'' magazine. He graduated from university in 1957, and tried but failed to enter various news companies, settling for darkroom work in Ginza for the photographer Osamu Yagi (). His university graduation work was published in the September issue of ''Sankei Camera.'' After meeting Kiyoji Ōtsuji, he entered Kuwasawa Design School in 1959, graduating in 1961.
In May 1960 he had his first solo exhibition, of work from his series "Somethin' Else", in Ginza Garō. His second exhibition featured work from the same series, face-on images of buildings taken with a 4×5
large format camera
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.
In 1961 Takanashi married Reiko Mizoguchi.
Between 1961 and 1970 he worked at
Nippon Design Center
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doing commercial photography.
Takanashi was a member of the collective that produced '' Provoke'' magazine in 1968 and 1969.
Takanashi had a tenured position at
Tokyo Zokei University
is a private university in Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan, founded in 1966 by Japanese art educator, fashion designer and design journalist, Yoko Kuwasawa (1910-1977). It is a four-year art college offering both bachelor's and master's degrees in studio ...
from 1980 until 2000 (a full professor from 1983), whereupon he retired but continued teaching there part-time.
From 1992, Takanashi, Genpei Akasegawa and
Yūtokutaishi Akiyama
(1935 – 3 April 2020) was a Japanese people, Japanese engraving, engraver artist, photographer, and occasional politician.Raika Dōmei.
Takanashi won the Annual Award of the Photographic Society of Japan twice, in 1984 and 1993.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
*"Somethin' Else". Ginza Garō ( Ginza, Tokyo), 1960.Lists of exhibitions, ''Field Notes of Light,'' pp. 161, 163.
*"Hyōteki" (, Target). Ginza Garō (Ginza, Tokyo), 1962.Lists of exhibitions, ''Field Notes of Light,'' pp. 161, 163. The English title is as given in the list; this is probably just a translation made for the list.
*"Tenshi kikō" (, White Houri). Wako (Ginza, Tokyo), 1974.
*"Machi" (, Town). Minolta Photo Space (Tokyo), 1978.
*"Jinzō" (, Human Images). Minolta Photo Space (
Osaka
is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of ...
), 1979.
*"Tōkyōjin 1978–1982" () / "Tokyoites 1978–1982". Olympus Gallery (Tokyo), 1982.Lists of exhibitions, ''Field Notes of Light,'' pp. 161, 163. The English title is as given in the list; this is probably as used at the time.
*"Jinzō II" (, Human Images II). Minolta Photo Space (Tokyo), 1986.
*"Tokyo-jin 1978–1983". Espace Japon (
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...
), 1986.
*"Miyako no kao: 1986–1988" () / "Visages of a Metropolis 1986–1988". Inax Gallery 2 ( Kyōbashi, Tokyo), 1988.
*"Sorezore no machi" () / "Each Town".
Setagaya Art Museum
The is an art museum in Yōga, Setagaya, Tokyo. The museum, which opened March 30, 1986, houses a permanent gallery and mounts seasonal exhibitions.
Structure
The main building of the museum, a contemporary design by architect Shōzō Uchii, ...
( Setagaya, Tokyo), 1988.
*"Magajīn" () / "Magazine". Ginza Canon Salon (Tokyo), 1988.
*"Toshi e/kara ten" (). Frog (Tokyo), 1989.
*"Hatsukuni" () / "Pre-landscape". Minolta Photo Space (Tokyo), 1992.
*"Tōkyō Ginza sandaiki" (, Three Generations, Ginza, Tokyo). Gallery Art-Graph (Tokyo), 1995. One exhibition in a series of three, the other exhibitors being
Shigeichi Nagano
__NOTOC__ was a Japanese photographer. He won the Ina Nobuo Award in 1986 and had a major retrospective at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in 2000.
Life and work
Nagano was born in Ōita City in Ōita Prefecture, and studied economi ...
and Osamu Kanemura.
*"Shikku suru shashinka: Takanashi Yutaka 'hōhōron' no kanata e, ten" (, A rushing photographer, Yutaka Takanashi: Going beyond methodology). Guardian Garden (Tokyo), 1996.Lists of exhibitions, ''Field Notes of Light,'' pp. 161, 163. The English title here is a rough translation.
*"Takanashi Yutaka gyararī" () / "Yutaka Takanashi Gallery". Canon Makuhara Wonder Museum (
Chiba City
is the capital city of Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It sits about east of the centre of Tokyo on Tokyo Bay. The city became a government-designated city in 1992. In June 2019, its population was 979,768, with a population density of 3,605 people p ...
), 1999.
*"Interlude". Art Gallery C-Square,
Chukyo University
is a private university in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, with campuses in Nagoya and Toyota. The main building is located in Yagoto, Shōwa-ku, Nagoya.
Notable faculty members
* Naomi Miyake, cognitive scientist
* Koji Murofushi, Olympic hammer t ...
(
Nagoya
is the largest city in the Chūbu region, the fourth-most populous city and third most populous urban area in Japan, with a population of 2.3million in 2020. Located on the Pacific coast in central Honshu, it is the capital and the most po ...
), June–July 2000.List of past exhibitions at Art Gallery C-Square, Chukyo University. Accessed 14 March 2009.
*"Tōkyō Zōkei Daigaku taishoku kinen shashin-kōza-ten: Takanashi Yutaka 'Shashin, hito ni yotte'" ().
Tokyo Zokei University
is a private university in Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan, founded in 1966 by Japanese art educator, fashion designer and design journalist, Yoko Kuwasawa (1910-1977). It is a four-year art college offering both bachelor's and master's degrees in studio ...
Yokoyama Memorial Manzù Art Museum (
Hachiōji
is a city located in the western portion of Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 561,344, and a population density of 3000 persons per km2. The total area of the city is .
Geography
Hachiōji is located in the ...
, Tokyo), 2000.
*"Chimeiron" () / "Genius Loci, Tokyo". Konica Plaza (Tokyo), 2000.
*"Windscape — shasō kara" (). Visual Arts Gallery (Osaka), 20.
*"Warera no emono wa itteki no hikari" (, Our Target is a Drop of Light). Photographers' Gallery ( Shinjuku, Tokyo), January 2003.
*"Wind Scape". Shoo Museum of the Arts ( Shōō, Okayama), 2003.
*"Nostalghia". Photographers' Gallery (Shinjuku, Tokyo), September 2004.
*"Hatsukuni" () / "Pre-landscape". Shadai Gallery (
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 Photogra ...
, Nakano, Tokyo), September–October 2006.
*"Kakoi machi" (). Canon Gallery S ( Minato, Tokyo), March–June 2007.
*"Takanashi Yutaka: Hikari no fīrudonōto" () / "Yutaka Takanashi: Field Notes of Light".
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
The in Tokyo, Japan, is the foremost museum collecting and exhibiting modern Japanese art.
This Tokyo museum is also known by the English acronym MOMAT (National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo). The museum is known for its collection of 20th-centu ...
Cologne
Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...
), April–June 2010.
*"Yutaka Takanashi".
Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation
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, Paris. May 10 - July 29, 2012.
Selection of other joint exhibitions
This list does not include the exhibitions of Raika Dōmei.
*"Gendai shashin no 10-nin" () / "Ten Artists of Contemporary Japanese Photography".
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
The in Tokyo, Japan, is the foremost museum collecting and exhibiting modern Japanese art.
This Tokyo museum is also known by the English acronym MOMAT (National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo). The museum is known for its collection of 20th-centu ...
, 1966.
*"Dai-10-kai Nihon gendai bijutsuten" (, 10th Exhibition of Japanese Contemporary Art).
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
The is an art museum in Tokyo, Japan. It is one of Japan's many museums which are supported by a prefectural government. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"Museums"in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', pp. 671-673. The current structure, designed by Kunio ...
, 1971.
*"15-nin no shashinka" () / "15 Photographers Today". National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 1974.
*"Neue Fotografie aus Japan".
Kunsthaus Graz
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Cologne
Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...
Tsukuba
is a city located in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 244,528 in 108,669 households and a population density of 862 persons per km². The percentage of the population aged over 65 was 20.3%. The total ar ...
, Ibaraki), 1985.
*"11-nin no 1965–75: Nihon no shashin wa kaeraretaka" () / "11 Photographers in Japan, 1965–75".
Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art
, in Yamaguchi City is the main art gallery of Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.
Opened in 1979, the gallery has a permanent collection, part of which is exhibited at any one time, and also hosts special exhibitions.
The gallery's photographic collec ...
, 1989.
*"Toshi no shisen" () / "Tokyo: A City Perspective".
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
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 museum al ...
, June–July 1990.
*"Sengo bunka no kiseki 1945–1995" () / "Japanese Culture: The 50 Postwar Years".
Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo
The is an art gallery in Meguro, Tokyo, Japan.
The building was opened in November 1987. Designed by Nihon Sekkei (), it is of reinforced concrete construction, with one basement floor and three floors above ground, and has floor space of 4059 s ...
(
Meguro
is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. The English translation of its Japanese self-designation is Meguro City. The ward was founded on March 15, 1947.
Meguro is predominantly residential in character, but is also home to light industry, corporate ...
, Tokyo), and elsewhere, 1995.
*"25-nin no 20-dai no shashin" () / "Works by 25 Photographers in their 20s". Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts ( Takane, Yamanashi), 1995.
*"85/05: Maboroshi no Tsukuba Shashin Bijutsukan kara no 20-nen" (). Sendai Mediatheque ( Sendai), April–May 2005.
*"Unasera di Tōkyō: Anohi anotokio: Zanzō no Tōkyō monogatari 1935–1992" ().
Setagaya Art Museum
The is an art museum in Yōga, Setagaya, Tokyo. The museum, which opened March 30, 1986, houses a permanent gallery and mounts seasonal exhibitions.
Structure
The main building of the museum, a contemporary design by architect Shōzō Uchii, ...
Hachinohe
is a city located in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 221,459, and a population density of 725 persons per km2 in 96,092 households, making it Aomori Prefecture's second largest city by population. The city ...
, Aomori), September–October 2005.
*"Barabara ni natta karada" () / "Body in Pieces". Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, October–December 2006.
Permanent collections
Takanashi's works are held by:
*
Setagaya Art Museum
The is an art museum in Yōga, Setagaya, Tokyo. The museum, which opened March 30, 1986, houses a permanent gallery and mounts seasonal exhibitions.
Structure
The main building of the museum, a contemporary design by architect Shōzō Uchii, ...
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
The in Tokyo, Japan, is the foremost museum collecting and exhibiting modern Japanese art.
This Tokyo museum is also known by the English acronym MOMAT (National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo). The museum is known for its collection of 20th-centu ...
*
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
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 museum al ...
*
Tokyo Zokei University
is a private university in Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan, founded in 1966 by Japanese art educator, fashion designer and design journalist, Yoko Kuwasawa (1910-1977). It is a four-year art college offering both bachelor's and master's degrees in studio ...
*
Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art
, in Yamaguchi City is the main art gallery of Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.
Opened in 1979, the gallery has a permanent collection, part of which is exhibited at any one time, and also hosts special exhibitions.
The gallery's photographic collec ...
As listed i this and subsequent pages of the museum's online catalogue. (As accessed 14 March 2009. There does not appear to be any search interface, and the order of items listed is unclear; after later changes to the catalogue, the items by Takanashi may appear on different pages within it.)
Bibliography
Books by Takanashi
*''Toshi e'' (, "Towards the city"). And ''Tōkyōjin nōto'' (). Izara Shobō, 1974. The two books were published as a pair.
** Reduced size reproduction of both volumes: New York: Errata, 2010. .
*''Machi'' (, "Town"). Tokyo: Asahi Shinbun, 1977. The pages of the book itself have no captions or text; a brochure supplied with the book identifies the precise address of every photograph.
*''Jinzō'' (). Shin'ya Soshosha, 1979.
*''Shin Oku no hosomichi'' () / ''The New "Oku no Hosomichi" Revisited.'' Nihon no Kokoro. Tokyo: Shūeisha, 1982. Fifty views along "
Oku no hosomichi
''Oku no Hosomichi'' (, originally ), translated as ''The Narrow Road to the Deep North'' and ''The Narrow Road to the Interior'', is a major work of ''haibun'' by the Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō, considered one of the major texts of Japanese li ...
".
*''Tōkyōjin 1978-1983'' (). Tokyo: Shoshi Yamada, 1983.
*''Takakura Ken shashinshū Eizō 25'' () 1983.
*''Miyako no kao'' () / ''Visages of a Metropolis.'' Tokyo: IPC, 1989. . Reissued in 1992 in different binding but with the same ISBN. The photographs are captioned, short texts by Makoto Ōtake () on each photograph are on a separate sheet; all this is in Japanese only.
*''Menbō yakujo: Jinbutsu shashin kuronikuru'' (). Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1990. .
*''Hatsukuni'' () / ''Pre-Landscape.'' Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1993. .
* ''Chimeiron'' () / ''Genius Loci, Tokyo.'' Tokyo: Mainichi Communications, 2000. .
* ''Raika no me'' (). Tokyo: Mainichi Communications, 2002. .
*''Nosutarujia'' () / ''Nostalghia.'' And ''Windscape.'' Tokyo: Heibonsha, 2004. . The two were published as a pair; the much smaller ''Windscape'' accompanying ''Nostalghia.''
*''Kakoi machi'' () / ''Kakoi-machi.'' Tokyo: Creo, 2007. . Color photographs of Tokyo and its environs. The captions (month and place) are in English only, the (little) other text is in Japanese only.
*''Photography 1965–1974.'' Berlin: Only Photography, 2010. . Details of this book may be found a the publisher's page about it
*''Yutaka Takanashi: Toshi-e.'' Books on Books 6. Errata Editions, 2010. . Reduced reproduction of the content of ''Toshi-e'' and ''Tōkyōjin.'' With text by Gōzō Yoshimasu and
Gerry Badger
Gerald David "Gerry" Badger (born 1946) is an English writer and curator of photography, and a photographer.
In 2018 he received the J Dudley Johnston Award from the Royal Photographic Society.
Life and career
Badger was born in 1946 in North ...
This list does not include the books published as by Raika Dōmei.
*''15-nin no shashinka'' () / ''15 Photographers Today.'' Tokyo: National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 1974.
*With Takahiko Okada (). ''Toshi wa yume mizu'' (). Tokyo: Shoshi Yamada, 1979.
*''Raimei no kubikazari: Takiguchi Shūzō ni'' (). Tokyo: Raimei no kubikazari Kankōkai, 1979.
*''11-nin no 1965–75: Nihon no shashin wa kaeraretaka'' () / ''11 Photographers in Japan, 1965–75.'' Yamaguchi: Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, 1989.
*''Tōkyō: Toshi no shisen'' () / ''Tokyo: A City Perspective.'' Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1990. Exhibition catalogue. Photographs from the series "Tokyoites" appear on pp. 116–21.
*''25-nin no 20-dai no shashin'' () / ''Works by 25 Photographers in their 20s.'' Takane, Yamanashi: Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, 1995. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts in 1995. Parallel text in Japanese and English.
*"Sengo bunka no kiseki 1945–1995" () / "Japanese Culture: The 50 Postwar Years". Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1995. . Catalogue of the exhibition at
Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo
The is an art gallery in Meguro, Tokyo, Japan.
The building was opened in November 1987. Designed by Nihon Sekkei (), it is of reinforced concrete construction, with one basement floor and three floors above ground, and has floor space of 4059 s ...
, and elsewhere.
*With Gōzō Yoshimasu (). ''Warera no emono wa itteki no hikari'' (). Photographers' Gallery File 2. Tokyo: Photographers' Gallery, 2003. The publisher's page about ''Warera no emono wa itteki no hikari'' i here
*''Unasera di Tōkyō: Anohi anotokio: Zanzō no Tōkyō monogatari 1935–1992'' (). Tokyo: Setagaya Museum of Art, 2005.
*Shigeyuki Toshima (), ed. ''Meganeura 2005'' () / ''ICANOF Media Art Show 2005 "Meganeura".'' ICANOF catalogue 5. .
On Takanashi
*''Shikku suru shashinka: Takanashi Yutaka 'hōhōron' no kanata e, ten'' (). Taimutoneru () 3. Tokyo: Guardian Garden, 1996. Discusses works from ''Somethin' Else'' to ''Genius Loci.''
*''Takanashi Yutaka'' () / ''Takanashi Yutaka.''
Nihon no Shashinka
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
35. Tokyo: Iwanami, 1998. . A survey of Takanashi's work in black and white, with 48 plates.
* ''Tōkyō Zōkei Daigaku taishoku kinen shashin-kōza-ten: Takanashi Yutaka "Shashin, hito ni yotte"'' (). Tokyo: Tokyo Zokei University, 2000.
*''Hikari no fīrudonōto'' () / ''Field Notes of Light.'' Tokyo: National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 2009.