Haruo Tomiyama

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Haruo Tomiyama (富山 治夫, Tomiyama Haruo), 1935-15 October 2016[1] was a versatile Japanese photographer, active since the 1960s.

Life and work[edit]

Born in Kanda (Tokyo) on 25 February 1935, Tomiyama dropped out of evening high school in 1956 to study photography for himself.[2]

From 1960 he was employed as a photographer for the new magazine Josei Jishin; from 1963 he was employed by Asahi Shinbunsha (publisher of Asahi Shinbun), and in the following year he started "Gendai gokan" for the company's news weekly Asahi Journal. The series — the literal meaning of whose title is something like "a sense for the contemporary language" — won Tomiyama the 1966 newcomer's prize of Nihon Shashin Hihyōka Kyōkai (日本写真批評家協会). In 1966 Tomiyama became a freelance, making extensive travels abroad.[2]

Tomiyama's book Sadogashima (佐渡島), a collection of photographs of Sado island published in 1978/79, won the Kodansha Publishing Culture Award (講談社出版文化賞) for a work of photography and the PSJ annual award.[2]

In 1994 Tomiyama was shown the archive of glass plates by the then-forgotten Sado-based amateur photographer Tomio Kondō. He printed many of these and acted as editor in chief for the first major collection of Kondō's works.[2] This won him the PSJ annual award for a second time.[3]

Tomiyama's works are in the permanent collection of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography[4] and the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.[5]

Exhibitions[edit]

  • "Japan Today". ICP (Manhattan), 1978.[6]
  • Digital photography exhibition for the 50th anniversary of the People's Republic of China. Beijing Art Museum, 1999.[6]
  • "Zen shūgyō" (禅修業). Wako (Ginza, Tokyo), 2002.[6]
  • "Tomiyama Haruo no Sadogashima" (富山治夫の佐渡島). Canon Salon (Tokyo), 2003.[6]
  • "Gendai gokan: our day" (現代語感 our day). JCII Photo Salon (Ichibanchō, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo), 2008.[7]
  • "Maboroshi no chōtokkyū Ajia-go" (幻の超特急「あじあ号」). Gallery Walk, Shiodome Media Tower (Shinbashi, Tokyo), 2009.[8]

Books[edit]

Books of Tomiyama's work[edit]

  • Tōkyō no 12-shō (東京の12章). Kyoto: Tankōshinsha, 1963. (in Japanese) With Yasaburō Ikeda and Kiyoshi Fujikawa. The title means "Twelve chapters of Tokyo".
  • Gendai gokan (現代語感). Eizō no Gendai 6. Tokyo: Chūōkōronsha, 1971. (in Japanese)
  • Sadogashima (佐渡島). Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1979. (in Japanese) A large book of black and white photographs of Sado island. Captions and text in Japanese.
  • Chūgoku (中国). 3 vols.　Tokyo: Nihon Kōtsū Kōsha, 1982. (in Japanese)
  • Jūnidaime Ichikawa Danjūrō: Shūmei zenkiroku (十二代目市川団十郎 襲名全記録). Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1985. ISBN 4-582-65403-7. (in Japanese) Photographs of Ichikawa Danjūrō XII.
  • Hokuō ni mau hannya (北欧に舞う般若). Tokyo: the photographer, 1986. (in Japanese) The title means "Paññā dancing in northern Europe".
  • Gendai gokan: 1961–1999 (現代語感 1961–1999). Beijing, 1999.
  • Zen shūgyō (禪修行). Tokyo: Sōtōshū Shūmuchō, 2002. (in Japanese) On zen training, published by the Sōtō school.
  • Gekkō no kizuna: Wakaki Ikeda Daisaku, 1972-nen no kioku (月光の絆 若き池田大作1972年の記憶). Tokyo: Usio, 2002. ISBN 4-267-01656-9. (in Japanese) Photos taken in 1972 of the Buddhist magnate Daisaku Ikeda, from the Sōka Gakkai publisher. The title means "The bonds of moonlight: Young Daisaku Ikeda, memories of 1972."
  • Gendai gokan: 1960–2004 our day (現代語感 1960–2004 our day). Tokyo: Kōdansha, 2004. ISBN 4-06-212396-7. (in Japanese)
  • Gendai gokan: 1960–2008 our day (現代語感 1960–2008 our day). JCII Photo Salon Library 207. Tokyo: JCII, 2008. (in Japanese)

Other books with contributions by Tomiyama[edit]

  • Ningen kakumei no kiroku (人間革命の記録) / The Document of Human Revolution. Tokyo: Shashin-hyōronsha, 1973. (in Japanese) With Yasuhiro Ishimoto. About Sōka Gakkai.
  • Nihon no banka: Ushinaware yuku kurashi no katachi (日本の挽歌 失われゆく暮らしのかたち). Tokyo: Kadokawa-shoten, 1979. (in Japanese) With Tetsurō Morimoto.
  • Kyōgeki (京劇). 2 vols. Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1980. (in Japanese) With others.
  • Shigosen no matsuri: Yamamoto Yasue no kai kōen (子午線の祀り 山本安英の会公演). Tokyo: Iwanami Hall, 1980. (in Japanese) With Junji Kinoshita. Title means "Festival of the meridian: Lectures of the Yasue Yamamoto society".
  • Tōkyō: Toshi no shisen (東京 都市の視線) / Tokyo: A City Perspective. Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1990. Exhibition catalogue. (in Japanese and English)
  • Nihon shashin no tenkan: 1960 nendai no hyōgen (日本写真の転換：1960時代の表現) / Innovation in Japanese Photography in the 1960s. Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1991. Exhibition catalogue. (in Japanese and English)
  • Sado mangekyō (佐渡万華鏡). Matsumoto: Kyōdo Shuppansha (郷土出版社), 1994. ISBN 4-87663-264-2. (in Japanese) Tomiyama is the editor. A generous anthology of photography of Sado island by Tomio Kondō, showing family life, farming, tourism, new technology, popular spectacles, and much else. The title means "Sado kaleidoscope".[9]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Haruo Tomiyama "Sadogashima"".
  2. ^ a b c d Yoshiko Suzuki (鈴木佳子, Suzuki Yoshiko), "Tomiyama Haruo", Nihon shashinka jiten (日本写真家事典) / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers (Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000; ISBN 4-473-01750-8), p.224. (in Japanese) All in Japanese, despite the alternative title.
  3. ^ List of past award winners, PSJ. (in Japanese) Accessed 20 December 2009.
  4. ^ As denoted by his inclusion in Nihon shashinka jiten / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers.
  5. ^ Description of works from the permanent collection, 2003–2004, MOMAT. (in Japanese) Accessed 7 December 2009.
  6. ^ a b c d Exhibition notice for "Tomiyama Haruo no Sadogashima", Canon. (in Japanese) Accessed 7 December 2009.
  7. ^ Exhibition notice Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine. (in Japanese) Accessed 5 December 2009.
  8. ^ Exhibition notice. (in Japanese) Accessed 5 December 2009.
  9. ^ Bibliographically this book is a little problematic: the colophon says 近藤福雄写真集1917～1945佐渡万華鏡 whereas the title page says ガラス乾板写真集 / 佐渡万華鏡 / Sado Island / 1917～1945. But it's clear that 佐渡万華鏡 is meant as the main title.

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