Kōtarō Tanaka
Kōtarō Tanaka was a Japanese amateur photographer particularly noted for his photography of Osaka and his use of color. Tanaka was born in Ise, Mie (Japan) in 1901. From 1932 onwards he participated in a variety of amateur photography groups.
Also recorded as Kotaro Tanaka · Koutarou Tanaka
Kōtarō Tanaka
- Born
- 1901 · Ise.
- Died
- 1995
- Nationality
- Japan · Empire of Japan
- Occupation
- photographer
- Languages
- Japanese
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From 1948 he worked in the Osaka office of Asahi Shinbun 's publishing company. From 1955, Tanaka worked to photograph Kawachi in Osaka, in a series titled Kawachi Fūdoki. In 1962 he started photographing firework displays in color (then still unusual for such purposes), with his camera attached to his moving body. Starting in the seventies, Tanaka won a series of awards for his long service to amateur photography in the Kansai area. He died on 7 November 1995.
• Yume sen'ya. Osaka: Village Press, 1990. • Shamo to renkon hatake: Nihon no genfūkei Kawachi. Kyoto: Kōrinsha, 1993. • Kōseki mange. Tokyo: Tanaka Kōtarō Sakuhinshū Iinkai, 1996. • Shikisai kōkyōgaku). Bee Books 239. Tokyo: Mitsumura, 1996..
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- 1.Although Shashinka wa nani o hyōgen shita ka specifies 4 December 1901, the editors of the two later biographical dictionaries would have known of this book (the article in Nihon no shashinka explicitly cites it) but the works omit the date for some reason.
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