Tsune Sugimura
Tsune Sugimura was a Japanese photographer. He was the author of 44 books, the most popular of which were Living Crafts of Okinawa (1973), which is a photographic documentary on traditional crafts from Okinawa, The Enduring Crafts of Japan (1968), and Hachijo: Isle of Exile (1973). He was also among the photographers included in Bessatsu Atorie Atarashii Shashin, a 1957 special issue that Ryūichi Kaneko later described as a printed forum in which prewar avant-garde figures such as Kansuke Yamamoto briefly intersected with younger postwar photographers including Kiyoji Ōtsuji, Ikkō Narahara, Hisae Imai, and Yasuhiro Ishimoto.
Tsune Sugimura
- Born
- 1926 · Nara.
- Died
- 1991
- Nationality
- Japan · Empire of Japan
- Occupation
- photographer
- Languages
- Japanese
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Tsune Sugimura was a Japanese photographer. He was the author of 44 books, the most popular of which were Living Crafts of Okinawa (1973), which is a photographic documentary on traditional crafts from Okinawa, The Enduring Crafts of Japan (1968), and Hachijo: Isle of Exile (1973). He was also among the photographers included in Bessatsu Atorie Atarashii Shashin, a 1957 special issue that Ryūichi Kaneko later described as a printed forum in which prewar avant-garde figures such as Kansuke Yamamoto briefly intersected with younger postwar photographers including Kiyoji Ōtsuji, Ikkō Narahara, Hisae Imai, and Yasuhiro Ishimoto.
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Born at Nara in 1926, died in 1991.
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