Taku Aramasa

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"Aramasa Taku Photographs – Apocalypse," Museum of Musashino Art University, Tokyo (2006)

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Early life

Born in Tokyo, Aramasa moved with his family to Manchukuo in 1940. In 1948 he moved to Sakata, Yamagata. He graduated from Script error: No such module "Nihongo". (now Musashino Art University) in 1960.

Photography career

After graduating art school, Aramasa set up a design company in which he was an art director, but became a freelance in 1970. He worked as a fashion photographer in Paris from 1973 to 1976.

In 1980 he met his parents, from whom he had been separated, and started work on a photographic contribution to the effort of reuniting Japanese war orphans and their biological parents. This work branched into the photography of people of Japanese descent in Hawai'i and South America.[1]

A Portrait of Japanese Immigrants to South America won the Domon Ken Award in 1986; Aramasa subsequently won various other awards.[1]

Aramasa has taught at Musashino Art University from 1993.[1]

Exhibitions

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  • "A Portrait of Japanese Immigrants to South America," Yurakucho Marion, Tokyo, 1986
  • "A Portrait of Japanese Immigrants to South America," Hiroshima and Osaka,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Japan, 1987
  • "Taku Aramasa Photographs-The 80th Anniversary of Japanese Immigration to Brazil," São Paulo Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, 1988
  • "Family, Commemorative Exhibition of 'Who Am I'," Nikon Salon, Tokyo and Osaka, 1990
  • "Who Am I?- War Orphans Left in China," Tokyo Metropolitan Art Gallery, Tokyo, 1991
  • "Who Am I?- War Orphans Left in China," Hiroshima and Fukuoka,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Japan, 1992
  • "Taku Aramasa Photographs: Portraits of Native America," Yuraku-cho Art Forum, Tokyo, Hakata, Nara and Takaoka,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Japan, 1994
  • "Silent Land-Prison Camps in Siberia," Sinjuku Park Tower Gallery 1, Tokyo, 1995
  • "Manchuria/Siberia," Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan, 1996
  • "Silent Land-Prison Camps in Siberia," Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, 1997
  • "Aramasa Taku Photographs-America/Promised Land," Mitsumura Art Plaza, Tokyo, 2000
  • "11+1 Photographs," Musashino Art University, Department of Imaging Arts 10th Anniversary, Mitsumura Art Plaza, Tokyo, 2000
  • "Aramasa Taku Photographs: Portraits of Japanese Immigrants," Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo, 2001
  • "Only Skin Deep-Changing vision of the American self," International Center of Photography, New York, NY
  • "Aramasa Taku-Sakura," Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco California, 2005
  • "Aramasa Taku Photographs-Apocalypse," Museum of Musashino Art University, Tokyo, 2006
  • "Aramasa Taku Photographs-America/promised Land" (platinum prints) Gallery Out of Place, Nara Japan, 2008
  • "Aramasa Sakura," Nikon Salon, Tokyo and Osaka, 2008
  • ｢frame & vision｣ -blessing in forest- ARAMASA Taku Solo Exhibition Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, 2009
  • "ARAMASA Taku Photographs 2011"(Na2 Platina print) One Men Show, OUT of PLACE, Nara, 2011
  • "ARAMASA Taku 2012 -HRIZON-" One Men Show, Tokyo Publishing House, Tokyo, 2012
  • "ARAMASA Taku 2014 -HRIZON-" One Men Show, Annely Juda Fine Art, London, 2014

Awards

Collections

Books

Books by Aramasa

  • Gyakkō sango shō (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler) Bunka Shuppan-kyoku, 1974
  • ERIKA : ARAMASA Taku Photographs, Hokuō-sha, 1976
  • Patricia : ARAMASA Taku Photographs, Hokuto-kikaku, 1977
  • AMERICAN PARODY : ARAMASA Taku Photographs, Hokuto-kikaku, 1977
  • Carnaval : ARAMASA Taku Photographs, Canon, 1979
  • To My Angels : ARAMASA Taku Photographs, Zenkoku Shuppan, 1983 Template:ISBN
  • A Portrait of Japanese Immigrants to South America : ARAMASA Taku Photographs, Asahi Shinbunsha, 1985. Template:ISBN. Text in Japanese and English (English translation by Lora Sharnoff)
  • Who Am I "War Orphans Left in China" : ARAMASA Taku Photographs, Who Am I Publishing Committee, 1990
  • Portraits of Native America : ARAMASA Taku Photographs, Kōdansha, 1993. Template:ISBN
  • The Silent Land Prison Camps in Siberia : ARAMASA Taku Photographs, Chikuma Shobō, 1995. Template:ISBN
  • America Promised Land : ARAMASA Taku Photographs, Misuzu Shobō, 2000. Template:ISBN. Text in Japanese and English
  • Apocalypse : ARAMASA Taku Photographs, Musashino Art University, 2006. Template:ISBN
  • ARAMASA Taku Photographs – Apocalypse E-book : Musashino Art University, 2007
  • ARAMASA Taku Photographs – 1961~2006 E-book : Musashino Art University, 2007
  • ARAMASA SAKURA – in black box / in black room : Edition 1/1, 2010
  • ARAMASA Taku 2014 HORIZON Catalogue© London, Annely Juda Fine Art, 2014

Other books showing Aramasa's work

  • Template:In lang Nihon nūdo meisakushū (日本ヌード名作集, Japanese nudes). Camera Mainichi bessatsu. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1982. Pp. 262–3 show a pair of photographs by Aramasa.

Notes

  1. ↑ a b c Niwa Harumi (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler), "Aramasa Taku", Nihon shashinka jiten (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler) / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers (Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000; Template:ISBN), p.28. In Japanese only, despite the English-language alternative title of the book.
  2. ↑ Note Aramasa's inclusion within Nihon shashinka jiten / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers, a companion to the gallery.

External links

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