Akihide Tamura
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Nihongo". is a Japanese photographer. He was born in Tokyo on 13 March 1947 as Shigeru Tamura (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler, Tamura Shigeru).[1] He studied at Tokyo College of Photography, graduating first in 1967 and then from a more advanced course two years later.
Tamura's first solo exhibition — under the name Shigeru Tamura (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler) — was Yume no hikari (Dream light) in Ginza Nikon Salon in 1969. He became known for his somewhat harsh monochrome depictions of landscapes. In 1974 his works appeared within the "New Japanese Photography" show in the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Tamura made the stills for several of the late films of Akira Kurosawa, and has published a book of photographs taken on the sets of Kurosawa's films.
Notes
- ↑ Akihide Tamura should not be confused with the well-known photographer Shigeru Tamura (1909–87), whose name is even written with the same kanji. (Perhaps part of the reason for the younger Tamura's change of name was to avoid this very confusion.)
Books by Tamura
- Tamura Photographs (1983)
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- Kurosawa Akira (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler, Akira Kurosawa). Tokyo: NTT, 1991. Template:ISBN. Template:In lang
Sources and external links
- Template:In lang Tamura Photographs
- Template:In lang Nihon shashinka jiten (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler, 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers). Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. Template:ISBN.