Ihei Kimura
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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.
In 1950, Kimura was elected chairman of the newly formed Japan Professional Photographers Society
(JPS); together with Ken Domon
he did much to encourage a documentary spirit in amateur photography.
In the mid-fifties, Kimura made several trips to Europe, providing photographs for the camera magazines. Pari, a collection of his color photographs of Paris, would only be published in 1974, but the use of color was ahead of its time.
On his return to Japan, Kimura concentrated on photographing rural life in Akita. He also worked on portraits, particularly of writers.
Kimura died at his home in Nippori on 31 May 1974; the Kimura Ihei Award
for new photographers was promptly set up in his honor. He remains popular in Japan: samples of his photographs still (2009) regularly appear in the magazine Asahi Camera
.
He was exposed at Rencontres d'Arles festival (France) in 2004.
Taito, Tokyo
is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. In English, it calls itself Taito City.As of April 1, 2011, the ward has an estimated population of 168,909, with 94,908 households, and a population density of 16,745.86 persons per km². The total area is 10.08 km².-History:The ward was founded...
), Tokyo, Kimura started taking photographs when very young but his interest intensified when he was around 20 and living in Tainan, Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
, 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
Yonosuke Natori
Born in Tokyo on 3 September 1910, Natori studied at Keio normal school but upon graduation went with his mother to Munich, where he studied at a school of arts and crafts. He became interested in photography and in 1931 obtained a Leica, later that year getting a contract to work as a photographer...
and others in forming the group Nippon Kōbō ("Japan workshop"), which emphasized "realism" in photography using 35mm
35 mm film
35 mm film is the film gauge most commonly used for chemical still photography and motion pictures. The name of the gauge refers to the width of the photographic film, which consists of strips 35 millimeters in width...
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
Manchukuo
Manchukuo or Manshū-koku was a puppet state in Manchuria and eastern Inner Mongolia, governed under a form of constitutional monarchy. The region was the historical homeland of the Manchus, who founded the Qing Empire in China...
and for the publisher Tōhō-sha.
In 1950, Kimura was elected chairman of the newly formed Japan Professional Photographers Society
Japan Professional Photographers Society
The is a Tokyo-based organization of photographers founded in 1950 that has continued to this day. Its logo reads “JPS”. It was formed from the combination of three earlier organizations, none more than two years old: Seinen Hōdō Shashin Kenkyūkai , Seinen Shashinka Kyōkai , and Shashinka Shūdan...
(JPS); together with Ken Domon
Ken Domon
is one of the most renowned Japanese photographers of the twentieth century. He is most celebrated as a photojournalist, though he may have been most prolific as a photographer of Buddhist temples and statuary....
he did much to encourage a documentary spirit in amateur photography.
In the mid-fifties, Kimura made several trips to Europe, providing photographs for the camera magazines. Pari, a collection of his color photographs of Paris, would only be published in 1974, but the use of color was ahead of its time.
On his return to Japan, Kimura concentrated on photographing rural life in Akita. He also worked on portraits, particularly of writers.
Kimura died at his home in Nippori on 31 May 1974; the Kimura Ihei Award
Kimura Ihei Award
The is a Japanese photographic award that attracts the attention of the mass media and book-buyers.The award has been given every year since 1975 by the Asahi Shimbun Company, publisher of Asahi Shimbun and the magazine Asahi Camera, in honor of the photographer Ihei Kimura...
for new photographers was promptly set up in his honor. He remains popular in Japan: samples of his photographs still (2009) regularly appear in the magazine Asahi Camera
Asahi Camera
is a Japanese monthly photographic magazine.The first issue was that for April 1926. It has from the outset been published by Asahi Shinbun-sha, publisher of the newspaper Asahi Shinbun....
.
He was exposed at Rencontres d'Arles festival (France) in 2004.
Books of Kimura's photographs
- A Historical Sketch of Japanese Customs and Costumes. Tokyo: Society for International Cultural Relations (Kokusai Bunka Shinkōkai), 1936.
- Japanese School Life through the Camera. Tokyo: Society for International Cultural Relations (Kokusai Bunka Shinkōkai), 1937.
- (As "Ihee Kimura".) Japan through a Leica. Tokyo: Sanseido, 1938. One hundred photographs of Japan. Facsimile edition: Tokyo: Kokushokan, 2006. ISBN 4-336-04488-0. (NB The box that contains this expensive reprint is considerably larger than the book within it.)
- Four Japanese Painters. JPS Picture Books. JPS, 1940. In English. Kōki nisenroppyaku-nen gōshuku geinōsai . Kokusai Hōdō Kōgei, 1941. Ōdō rakudo . Tokyo: Ars, 1943. Photographs of Manchuria.
- Rokudaime Onoe Kikugorō butai shashinshū . Kyoto: Wakei Shoten, 1949. On the kabuki actor Onoe Kikugorō VI (1885–1949). Kimura Ihee kessaku shashinshū / Select Pictures by Ihei Kimura. Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1954. A book of generous format (30×21 cm) that presents 132 photographs, most taking the entire page but a few in half-, quarter- or double-page format. They represent all facets of Kimura's work. The reproduction quality is of course no match for that in the posthumous collections, and what is interesting about this book is the material that the latter drop, for example three photographs from a (demure) striptease performance. Short captions in English as well as Japanese, longer explanations as well as texts by Kimura and Nobuo Ina in Japanese only. Kimura Ihee gaiyū shashinshū: Dai ikkai . Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1955. Kimura Ihee gaiyū shashinshū: Dai nikai: Yōroppa no inshō / Impression of Europe. Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1956.
- Zōsenjo no inshō / At a Shipyard. Sekai Shashin Sakka . Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1958.
- Kimura Ihee sakuhinshū , Collected photographs of Ihei Kimura). Gendai Nihon shashin zenshū , vol. 1. Tokyo: Sōgensha, 1959.
- Ōkawa Hashizō butai shashinshū . Wakei Shoten, 1962. On the kabuki actor Hashizō Ōkawa (1929–84). Zenshinza butai shashinshū . Tokyo: Kenkōsha, 1966. Black and white and also some color photographs of the Zenshinza kabukiKabukiis classical Japanese dance-drama. Kabuki theatre is known for the stylization of its drama and for the elaborate make-up worn by some of its performers.The individual kanji characters, from left to right, mean sing , dance , and skill...
troupe on stage and off, on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of its founding. Kimura Ihee no me . Special issue of Asahi CameraAsahi Camerais a Japanese monthly photographic magazine.The first issue was that for April 1926. It has from the outset been published by Asahi Shinbun-sha, publisher of the newspaper Asahi Shinbun....
, December 1970. A representative collection of Kimura's works, all black and white. Kimura Ihee shashinshū: Chūgoku no tabi . Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1974. - Kimura Ihee shashinshū: Pari . Tokyo: Norasha, 1974. Most of the photographs are spread across facing pages (and thus split down the middle). Akita . Nikon Salon Books 4. Tokyo: Nikkor Club, 1978. Photographs of AkitaAkita Prefectureis a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku Region of northern Honshu, the main island of Japan. The capital is the city of Akita.- History :The area of Akita has been created from the ancient provinces of Dewa and Mutsu....
. - Rokudaime Kikugorō: Kimura Ihee shashinshū / Sixth Generation Kikugoro. Sonorama Shashin Sensho 17. Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama, 1979. ISBN 04257110170. On the kabuki actor Onoe Kikugorō VI (1885–1949). Substantially based on the book of 1949, but an altered selection of photographs. With a short summary in English. Watanabe Yoshio , et al., eds. Kimura Ihee shashin zenshū: Shōwa jidai . Tokyo: Sekaibunkasha, 1979. Three large (37 cm tall), expensive hardback volumes.
- 1. Portraits and the stage.
- 2. Street scenes and the countryside.
- 3. Europe and China. Machikado . Nikon Salon Books 7. Tokyo: Nikkor Club, 1981. Black and white photographs, mostly of Japan, but also of Europe and China, selected by a team headed by Jun MikiJun Mikiwas a renowned Japanese photographer and one of Japan's pioneers in photojournalism.He was the first Japanese photographer to publish in Life Magazine.The Selection Committee of Nikon Salon established the Miki Jun Award in 1999 to remember his legacy....
. There are scenes in the countryside (even fields), by the sea, and so forth. When new, this book was available to the members of the Nikkor Club; it was not sold to the public. Watanabe Yoshio , et al., eds. Kimura Ihee shashin zenshū: Shōwa jidai . Tokyo: Chikuma, 1984. Four large (31 cm tall), hardback volumes, still (2006) in print. - 1. Photographs from 1925 to 1945. ISBN 4-480-61301-3.
- 2. Photographs from 1945 to 1953. ISBN 4-480-61302-1.
- 3. Photographs from 1953 to 1974. ISBN 4-480-61303-X.
- 4. Photographs of Akita Prefecture. ISBN 4-480-61304-8. Tanuma Takeyoshi , ed. Kimura Ihee no Shōwa . Chikuma Library 39. Tokyo: Chikuma, 1990. ISBN 4-480-05139-2. An inexpensive compact (shinsho) survey still (2006) in print.
- Tanuma Takeyoshi , ed. Kimura Ihee: Shōwa no onna-tachi . Chikuma Library 55. Tokyo: Chikuma, 1991. ISBN 4-480-05155-4.
- Kimura Ihee no sekai / Photographs: Kimura Ihee. Tokyo: Tōkyōto Bunka Shinkōkai, 1992. Catalogue of an exhibition.
- Kimura Ihee sakuhinten: Tokyo, 1945–1968 . Tokyo: JCII Photo Salon, 1992. Rokudaime Onoe Kikugorō: Zenseiki no meijingei . Tokyo: Nihon Eizō (distributed by Bungei Shunjū), 1993. ISBN 4-89036-847-7. On the kabuki actor Onoe Kikugorō VI (1885–1949).
- Kimura Ihee to Akita ten . Akita: Akita Senshu Museum of Art, 1994. Tanuma Takeyoshi , ed. Kimura Ihee: Shōwa o utsusu . Tokyo: Chikuma (Chikuma Bunko), 1995. An inexpensive four-volume pocket-format (bunkobonBunkobonIn Japan, bunkobon are small-format paperback books, designed to be affordable and portable.The great majority of bunkobon are A6 in size...
) survey still (2006) in print, based on the same publisher's four-volume set of 1984.- 1. Senzen to sengo . ISBN 4-480-03051-4. Okinawa, 1935; Manchuria, 1940; life in Tokyo and elsewhere in HonshūHonshuis the largest island of Japan. The nation's main island, it is south of Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyushu across the Kanmon Strait...
, mostly 1932–41; the aftermath of the war, 1945–7; Japan, 1949–72. - 2. Yomigaeru toshi . ISBN 4-480-03052-2. Tokyo 1946–73.
- 3. Jinbutsu to butai . ISBN 4-480-03053-0. Portraits, people at work, the traditional Japanese stage.
- 4. Akita no minzoku . ISBN 4-480-03054-9. Life in Akita Prefecture. Kimura Ihee . Nihon no Shashinka 8. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1998. ISBN 4-00-008348-1. A concise survey within this set devoted to the Japanese pantheon. Teihon: Kimura Ihee . Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 2002. ISBN 4-02-258676-1. A large (29 cm tall), carefully produced and rather expensive collection, which has captions in English as well as Japanese, but no other English.
- 1. Senzen to sengo . ISBN 4-480-03051-4. Okinawa, 1935; Manchuria, 1940; life in Tokyo and elsewhere in Honshū
- Boku to Raika: Kimura Ihee kessakusen + essei . Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 2003. ISBN 4-02-257832-7.
- Kimura Ihee / Ihei Kimura. Kyoto: Katsuhikan and the Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art, 2002. A compact survey of Kimura's work in Japan. Elegantly produced, but the reproduction quality is disappointing. Short captions as well as some other text in English, remaining text in Japanese only.
- Kimura Ihee-ten / Ihei Kimura: The Man with the Camera. Tokyo: National Museum of Modern Art, 2004. The compact survey in this well-produced exhibition catalog includes such lesser known works as the Kaō advertisements. Captions and much of the text in English as well as Japanese.
- Tanuma Takeyoshi , et al. Kimura Ihee no Pari / Kimura Ihei in Paris: Photographs 1954–1955. Tokyo: Asahi Shinbun-sha, 2006. ISBN 4-02-250209-6. A large collection of color photographs, many of which previously appeared in Kimura Ihee shashinshū: Pari (1974). In Japanese and English.
Other books with works by Kimura
- Kogata kamera shashinjutsu . Seibundō Shinkōsha, 1936. Reprint. Kurashikku Kamera Sensho 25. Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama, 2002. ISBN 4257120355.
- Kogata kamera no utsushikata, tsukaikata ( [in modern script (]). Tokyo: Genkōsha, 1937.
- (Joint work) Girls of Japan. JPS Picture Books. JPS, 1939. In English.
- (Joint work) Pendidikan di sekolah kebangsaan. Kokusai Bunka Shinkōkai, 1942.
- (Joint work) Peroesahaan mesin basar. Kokusai Bunka Shinkōkai, 1942.
- (with Shunkichi KikuchiShunkichi Kikuchiwas a Japanese photographer best known for his documentation of Hiroshima and Tokyo immediately after the war.Kikuchi was born in Hanamaki, Iwate on 1 May 1916. After graduating from the Oriental School of Photography, Kikuchi was employed in the Photography Division of Tokyo Kōgeisha and began his...
) Tōkyō sen-kyūhyaku-yonjūgonen, aki / Tokyo: Fall of 1945. Tokyo: Bunka-sha, 1946. The photographers are not credited. A stapled booklet of sepia photographs of life in Tokyo immediately after the end of the war. (The word aki in the title makes it clear that fall here means autumn, not defeat.) Text and captions in both Japanese and English. Jūgosei Ichimura Uzaemon butai shashinshū . Edited by . Kyoto: Wakei Shoten, 1951. On the kabuki actor. On the kabuki actor Ichimura Uzaemon (1874–1945). Ninety-six pages of photographs, of which pp. 21–68 are credited to Kimura (the remainder are uncredited). (With Nakagawa Kazuo) Shashin no utsushikata . Tokyo: Kaname Shobō, 1953. - (With Nobuo Ina, edited by Yōnosuke NatoriYonosuke NatoriBorn in Tokyo on 3 September 1910, Natori studied at Keio normal school but upon graduation went with his mother to Munich, where he studied at a school of arts and crafts. He became interested in photography and in 1931 obtained a Leica, later that year getting a contract to work as a photographer...
) Shashin no jōshiki. . Tokyo: Keiyūsha, 1955. - Kimura Ihee dokuhon . Special issue of Photo Art, August 1956.
- (As editor) Jinbutsu shashin . Asahi Camera Kōza . Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1956.
- (Edited by Kimura Ihei and Nakajima Kenzō) Bungakusha no mita gendai no Chūgoku shashinshū . Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1960.
- Kimura Ihee no sekai . Special issue of Asahi CameraAsahi Camerais a Japanese monthly photographic magazine.The first issue was that for April 1926. It has from the outset been published by Asahi Shinbun-sha, publisher of the newspaper Asahi Shinbun....
, August 1974. Sengo shashin / Saisei to tenkai / Twelve Photographers in Japan, 1945–55. Yamaguchi Kenritsu Bijutsukan, 1990. Despite the alternative title in English, almost exclusively in Japanese (although each of the twelve has a potted chronology in English). Twenty of Kimura's photographs of Akita appear on pp. 36–46. - Taidan: Shashin kono gojūnen . By the editors of Asahi CameraAsahi Camerais a Japanese monthly photographic magazine.The first issue was that for April 1926. It has from the outset been published by Asahi Shinbun-sha, publisher of the newspaper Asahi Shinbun....
. Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1974. A collection of transcriptions of Kimura's discussions with various photographers and others concerned with photography. - Kimura Ihee / Special Issue: Ihei Kimura. Nikkor Club, no. 70, Autumn 1974. Kimura Ihee o yomu . Asahi Camera special edition. Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1979. In Japanese only, but very substantial and contains a handy reference to Kimura's very numerous contributions to the magazine. (A special production by the Asahi Camera, prominently dated December 1979 and looking at first like that month's issue: but there was also a separate, regular issue for the month.)
- Association to Establish the Japan Peace Museum, ed. Ginza to sensō / Ginza and the War. Tokyo: Atelier for Peace, 1986. ISBN 4-938365-04-9 Kimura is one of ten photographers — the others are Ken DomonKen Domonis one of the most renowned Japanese photographers of the twentieth century. He is most celebrated as a photojournalist, though he may have been most prolific as a photographer of Buddhist temples and statuary....
, Shigeo HayashiShigeo Hayashiwas a Japanese photographer. After three years of army service he began his career as a photographer with the Japanese propaganda magazine FRONT, in 1943. In September 1945 he was one of two photographers assigned by the Special Committee for the Investigation of A-bomb Damage to document the...
, Tadahiko HayashiTadahiko Hayashiwas a Japanese photographer noted for a wide range of work including documentary and portraiture.-Youth and early career:...
, Kōyō IshikawaKoyo Ishikawawas a renowned Japanese photographer. As an officer of the Metropolitan Police Department, he was virtually the only person who pictured the immediate damages by the bombings of Tokyo in World War II under a strict regulation that prohibited civilians from taking pictures of war damages.-References:...
, Kōyō Kageyama, Shunkichi KikuchiShunkichi Kikuchiwas a Japanese photographer best known for his documentation of Hiroshima and Tokyo immediately after the war.Kikuchi was born in Hanamaki, Iwate on 1 May 1916. After graduating from the Oriental School of Photography, Kikuchi was employed in the Photography Division of Tokyo Kōgeisha and began his...
, Kōji MorookaKoji Morookawas a Japanese photographer.-References:...
, Minoru Ōki, and Maki Sekiguchi — who provide 340 photographs for this well-illustrated and large photographic history of GinzaGinzais a district of Chūō, Tokyo, located south of Yaesu and Kyōbashi, west of Tsukiji, east of Yūrakuchō and Uchisaiwaichō, and north of Shinbashi.It is known as an upscale area of Tokyo with numerous department stores, boutiques, restaurants and coffeehouses. Ginza is recognized as one of the most...
from 1937 to 1947. Captions and text in both Japanese and English. - (Joint work) Bunshi no shōzō hyakujūnin . Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1990. ISBN 4-02-258466-1. Kimura is one of five photographers — the others are Shōtarō AkiyamaShotaro Akiyamais a renowned Japanese photographer.-References:...
, Ken DomonKen Domonis one of the most renowned Japanese photographers of the twentieth century. He is most celebrated as a photojournalist, though he may have been most prolific as a photographer of Buddhist temples and statuary....
, Hiroshi HamayaHiroshi Hamayawas a renowned Japanese photographer.-Books of Hamaya's works:*Senkō shashinjutsu . Ars Shashin Bunko. Tokyo: Ars, 1941.*Ura Nihon . Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1957.*Henkyō no machi . Sekai Shashinka Shirīzu. Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1957....
, and Tadahiko HayashiTadahiko Hayashiwas a Japanese photographer noted for a wide range of work including documentary and portraiture.-Youth and early career:...
. Mishima Yasushi . Kimura Ihee to Domon Ken: Shashin to sono shōgai . Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1995. ISBN 4-582-23107-1. Reprint. Heibonsha Library. Tokyo: Heibonsha, 2004. ISBN 4-582-76488-6. Kimura Ihee no renzu: Sunappushotto wa kō tore! ( , The lens of Ihei Kimura: Here's how to take snapshots!). Taiyō / The Sun, July 1999. Republished as a book in 2007. - Dokyumentarī no jidai: Natori Yōnosuke, Kimura Ihee, Domon Ken, Miki Jun no shashin kara / The Documentary Age: Photographs by Natori YounosukeYonosuke NatoriBorn in Tokyo on 3 September 1910, Natori studied at Keio normal school but upon graduation went with his mother to Munich, where he studied at a school of arts and crafts. He became interested in photography and in 1931 obtained a Leica, later that year getting a contract to work as a photographer...
, Kimura Ihei, Domon KenKen Domonis one of the most renowned Japanese photographers of the twentieth century. He is most celebrated as a photojournalist, though he may have been most prolific as a photographer of Buddhist temples and statuary....
, and Miki JunJun Mikiwas a renowned Japanese photographer and one of Japan's pioneers in photojournalism.He was the first Japanese photographer to publish in Life Magazine.The Selection Committee of Nikon Salon established the Miki Jun Award in 1999 to remember his legacy....
. Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 2001. An exhibition catalogue. The book reproduces 28 of Kimura's photographs of Akita. Captions in both Japanese and English, other text in Japanese only. - Hiraki, Osamu, and Keiichi Takeuchi. Japan, a Self-Portrait: Photographs 1945–1964. Paris: Flammarion, 2004. ISBN 2-08-030463-1 Kimura is one of eleven photographers whose works appear in this large book (the others are Ken Domon, Hiroshi HamayaHiroshi Hamayawas a renowned Japanese photographer.-Books of Hamaya's works:*Senkō shashinjutsu . Ars Shashin Bunko. Tokyo: Ars, 1941.*Ura Nihon . Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1957.*Henkyō no machi . Sekai Shashinka Shirīzu. Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1957....
, Tadahiko Hayashi, Eikoh HosoeEikoh Hosoeis a Japanese photographer and filmmaker who emerged in the experimental arts movement of post-World War II Japan. He is known for his psychologically charged images, often exploring subjects such as death, erotic obsession, and irrationality...
, Yasuhiro IshimotoYasuhiro IshimotoIshimoto was born on 14 June 1921 in San Francisco, California, where his parents were farmers. In 1924, the family left the United States and returned to his parents' hometown within present-day Tosa, in Kōchi Prefecture, Japan...
, Kikuji KawadaKikuji Kawadais a renowned Japanese photographer.-References:...
, Shigeichi NaganoShigeichi NaganoBorn on 30 March 1925 in Ōita City, Nagano studied economics at Keio University . On graduating, he joined a trading company, but soon resigned. He was recruited by Natori Yōnosuke for Weekly Sun News ; and in 1949 moved to Iwanami Shoten where, again under Natori, he did the photography for about...
, Ikkō NaraharaIkko Naraharais a Japanese photographer. Born in Fukuoka, Narahara studied law at Chuo University and, influenced by statues of Buddha at Nara, art history at the graduate school of Waseda University ....
, Takeyoshi TanumaTakeyoshi Tanumais a renowned Japanese photographer.-References:...
, and Shōmei TōmatsuShomei Tomatsuis a Japanese photographer.Born Teruaki Tōmatsu in Nagoya in 1930, Tōmatsu studied economics at Aichi University, graduating in 1954. While still a student, he had his photographs published by the major Japanese photography magazines. He entered Iwanami and worked on the series Iwanami Shashin Bunko...
). - Kindai shashin no umi no oya: Kimura Ihee to Domon Ken / Kimura Ihei and Domon Ken. Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha and Mainichi Shinbunsha, 2004. Catalogue of an exhibition. Kimura Ihee no renzu: Sunappushotto wa kō tore! . Tokyo: Heibonsha, 2007. ISBN 978-4-582-63428-0. Reworked from the July 1999 issue of Taiyō: an economical, compact collection of photographs by (and of) Kimura, essays about him by prominent photographers (such as Kineo KuwabaraKineo Kuwabarawas a Japanese editor and photographer, known for photographing Tokyo for over half a century.Kuwabara was born in Tokyo in 1913. He started taking photographs around 1931 with a Vest Pocket Kodak, but his interest increased as a result of an invitation by his neighbor Hiroshi Hamaya to go to a...
, Yutaka TakanashiYutaka Takanashiis a Japanese photographer who has photographed fashion, urban design, and city life, and is best known for his depiction of Tokyo.-Life and career:...
and Nobuyoshi ArakiNobuyoshi Arakiis a Japanese photographer and contemporary artist. He is also known by the nickname .-Life and career:Araki was born in Tokyo, studied photography during his college years and then went to work at the advertising agency Dentsu, where he met his future wife, the essayist Yōko Araki...
), and such extras as an illustrated bibliography.