Tetsuya Ichimura

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Nihongo". is a Japanese photographer noted for his photographs of nudes.[1]

Early life

Ichimura was born, with the family name Hamaguchi,[2] in Nagasaki on 10 June 1930. As a young adult Ichimura moved to Tokyo, where he studied for a year at Nihon University, took various jobs, and chanced to meet Shōtarō Akiyama, who aroused his interest in photography.

Photography career

Ichimura won a special award at the Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., held at Takashimaya in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, in 1956. He quickly moved to nude photography, and had his first solo exhibition, "Love & Lost", in Fuji Photo Salon in 1963.

He also participated in exhibitions overseas: "New Japanese Photography" in New York (7 Works owned by MoMA) in 1974 and an exhibition of eight Japanese photographers in Graz in 1976. From the late 1970s Ichimura branched out to photographs of Japanese iconography and landscape, particularly that of his native Nagasaki.

Books by Ichimura

Other books with photographs by Ichimura

  • Template:In lang Nihon nūdo meisakushū (日本ヌード名作集, Japanese nudes). Camera Mainichi bessatsu. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1982. Pp. 228–33 show Ichimura's work.
  • Szarkowski, John, and Shōji Yamagishi. New Japanese Photography. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1974. Template:ISBN (hard), Template:ISBN (paper). Includes six pages of photographs by Ichimura.

Notes

  1. Martin Marix Evans, ed., 1995 Contemporary Photographers, 3rd ed. (St. James Press).
  2. His name in kanji was or is Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler (Kasahara, "Ichimura Tetsuya"). The likeliest readings of the character Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler are Takashi and Ryū. Kasahara does not explain when or how Hamaguchi became Ichimura.

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