Akihide Tamura
Akihide Tamura is a Japanese photographer. He was born in Tokyo on 13 March 1947 as Shigeru Tamura (Tamura Shigeru). He studied at Tokyo College of Photography, graduating first in 1967 and then from a more advanced course two years later.
Akihide Tamura
- Full name
- 田村茂.
- Born
- 1947. · Tokyo.
- Nationality
- Japan.
- Occupation
- photographer.
- Education
- Tokyo College of Photography.
- Languages
- Japanese.
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Tamura's first solo exhibition — under the name Shigeru Tamura — 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.
• Tamura Photographs (1983) • Base. Tokyo: Mole, 1992.. • Kurosawa Akira (Akira Kurosawa). Tokyo: NTT, 1991..
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Akihide Tamura (born 1947) is documented in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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• Tamura Photographs • Nihon shashinka jiten (328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers). Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000..
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Akihide Tamura was born in 1947.
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- 1.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.)
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