Tetsuya Ichimura
Tetsuya Ichimura is a Japanese photographer noted for his photographs of nudes.
Tetsuya Ichimura
- Born
- 1930 · Nagasaki.
- Nationality
- Japan
- Occupation
- photographer
- Education
- Nihon University
- Languages
- Japanese
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Early life
Early life
Ichimura was born, with the family name Hamaguchi, 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
Photography career
Ichimura won a special award at the First International Subjectivism Photo Exhibition, held at Takashimaya in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, in 1956. The exhibition was held in the same year that the newly founded Japan Subjective Photography League was established and brought together prewar avant-garde figures such as Kansuke Yamamoto alongside younger postwar photographers including Ikkō Narahara and Yasuhiro Ishimoto. 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
Books by Ichimura
• Konna sei no hanashi mo aru. Tokyo: Besutoserāzu, 1970. Text by Daihachi Izumi, photographs by Ichimura. • Seidan to nūdo no fūkei. Tokyo: Besutoserāzu, 1970. • Kyōki no utage Salome (Salome). Tokyo: Jitsugyō no Nihon sha, 1970. • Come Up. Tokyo: Shashinhyōronsha, 1971. • Onna to otoko: Imayō shunga. Gendai Shashinka Shirīzu. Tokyo: Ado angen, 1972. With Yoshihiro Tatsuki and Tenmei Kanō. • Shashin no shisō. Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppansha, 1978. • Nihon no kokoro / Impressions of Japan. Tokyo: Canon Club, 1978. • Onna soshite daraku.... Tokyo: Besutoserāzu, 1983.. • Nagasaki. Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1988.. • / Sakura Blossom. Tokyo: Nippon Camera-sha, 1992. • Body: Mega・sexual photo. Tokyo: Hanashi no Tokushū, 1994.. • Ichimura Tetsuya feromon sakuhinshū: "Shunga" erotic picture do H (："Shunga" erotic picture do H). Tokyo: Wanimagajinsha, 1995.. • Tsuyu: Neo-waisetsu shashinshū. Tokyo: Hokuō Shobō / Japan Mix, 1997..
Other books with photographs by Ichimura
Other books with photographs by Ichimura
• 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. (hard), (paper). Includes six pages of photographs by Ichimura.
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