Tomio Kondō
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Nihongo". was an amateur photographer who lived on and energetically photographed Sado island in the Sea of Japan.[1]
Kondō was born to a landowning family in Kanazawa village (subsequently part of Kanai, which in turn was amalgamated within "Sado City"). He started with a camera at 18, and also had a keen interest in archaeology. Kondō photographed landscapes and a great variety of life on the island, as well as the figures from literary and artistic circles on the mainland who came to visit during the infancy of Sado's tourism industry. He financed this by gradually selling off land owned by the family.
Kondō was keen to keep up with the latest news on the island. He helped set up the Sado museum (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler, Sado Hakubutsukan), of which he became a trustee, and organizations devoted to mountain walking and botany.
Kondō left a collection of about 8,840 plates on his death. These were bought by the bus company Niigata Kōtsū (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler), which presented them to the Sado museum, but they were little known until 1979, when they were seen by Haruo Tomiyama (himself a notable photographer of Sado) and others. Four years later they became an Asahi Camera cover story, and thanks to the effort of Tomiyama and others they have been exhibited in Sado and anthologized in two books. The photographs then had some exposure in the general-interest media; for example, the 17 August 1995 issue of the magazine Serai (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler, Sarai) had a six-page feature on them.
Sado City has recently started a photography contest in Kondō's honour.
Books of Kondō's works
- Sado (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler). Iwanami Shashin Bunko 73. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1952. Kondō is listed as one of two individual photographers[2] who photographed the content with three organizations.Template:In lang
- Sado mangekyō (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler), ed. Haruo Tomiyama. Matsumoto: Kyōdo Shuppansha (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler), 1994. Template:ISBN. A generous anthology of Kondō's work, showing family life, farming, tourism, new technology, popular spectacles, and much else. Template:In lang[3]
- Sado shashinchō (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler), ed. Hisao Kondō (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler) and Kinzō Isobe (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler). Matsumoto: Kyōdo Shuppansha (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler), 2000. Template:ISBN. Template:In lang
Notes
- ↑ Kondō's given name of Tomio is written with characters (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler) whose far more obvious reading is "Fukuo". The reading of this name is often given (e.g. in the OPAC of Tokyo Municipal Library) as "Fukuo"; however, Nihon no shashinka, Nihon shashinka jiten, the December 1983 Asahi Camera cover story and the flyer advertising the Kondō Tomio award all have "Tomio".
- ↑ The other is Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler, the reading of whose name is unknown.
- ↑ Bibliographically this book is a little problematic: the colophon says Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler whereas the title page says Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler / Sado Island / 1917～1945. But it's clear that Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler is meant as the main title.
References
- Template:In lang Nihon no shashinka (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler) / Biographic Dictionary of Japanese Photography. Tokyo: Nichigai Associates, 2005. Template:ISBN. Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese.
- Template:In lang Nihon shashinka jiten (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler) / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. Template:ISBN.
- Template:In lang "Sado 1918–1949" (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler). Asahi Camera, December 1983. Pp. 15–46. A collection of Kondō's works.
- Template:In lang Shashinshū o yomu: Besuto 338 kanzen gaido (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler, Reading photobooks: A complete guide to the best 338). Tokyo: Metarōgu, 1997. Template:ISBN. Sado mangekyō is written up.
External links
- Template:In lang Template:Webarchive: the lower third or so of this page is devoted to the works of Kondō; there are clickable thumbnails of four of his works.
- Template:In lang Dai-go-kai Sado-kuni Biennāre Kondō-Tomio-shō Shashin Kontesuto: a Sado City page that invites submissions for the Kondō Tomio award.