Tsuneko Sasamoto
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Early life
Sasamoto was born in Tokyo, Japan. She went to a college of home economics, but quit because of her ambition to become a painter. After dropping out, she attended an institute of painting without telling her parents, and a dressmaking school.[2]
Career
Sasamoto started her career as a part-time illustrator on the local news pages in Tokyo Nichinichi Shimbun (now Mainichi Shimbun, one of the newspapers in Japan). At 26, she got promoted to a probationary employee in 1940 when she joined the Photographic Society in Japan, officially becoming the first female photojournalist in Japan. She stated that Margaret Bourke-White was a major influence in why she became a photographer.[3] Sasamoto photographed subjects from General Douglas MacArthur during the American occupation of Japan to striking coalminers and protesting students.[4]
She published a photo book in 2011 called Hyakusai no Finder, or Centenarian’s Finder.[4] In 2014, Sasamoto had an exhibit of her work from her 2011 book called Hyakusai Ten, or, Centenarian’s Exhibition.[4] In 2015, Sasamoto published another book, Inquisitive Girl at 101.[3] She broke her left hand and both legs in 2015 but continued to photograph. Prior to her death, Sasamoto was working on a project called Hana Akari (Flower Glow) in honor of her friends who had died.[5]
Sasamoto turned 100 in September 2014,[6] and died of natural causes on 15 August 2022, at the age of 107.[7]
Awards
2016: Lucie Award for Lifetime Achievement[8]
References
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External links
- Author page at Amazon
- Interview with Tsuneko Sasamoto (in Japanese)
- Nihon shashinka jiten (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler) / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. Template:ISBN. Template:In lang