Yutaka Takanashi (高梨 豊, Takanashi Yutaka) is a Japanese photographer who has photographed fashion, urban design, and city life, and is best known for his depiction of Tokyo.

Life and career

Takanashi was born on 6 February 1935 in Shirogane-chō, Ushigome-ku (now Shinjuku), Tokyo.[1] In 1943 he was evacuated to Saitama (Saitama). In 1953 he graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Aoyama High School and entered the photography department of Nihon University.[1] His first camera was a Canon IVSb 35 mm rangefinder.

In 1956 Takanashi's photographs won awards from Sankei Camera magazine. He graduated from university in 1957, and tried but failed to enter various news companies, settling for darkroom work in Ginza for the photographer Osamu Yagi (八木治).[1] His university graduation work was published in the September issue of Sankei Camera. After meeting Kiyoji Ōtsuji, he entered Kuwasawa Design School in 1959, graduating in 1961.[1]

In May 1960 he had his first solo exhibition, of work from his series "Somethin' Else", in Ginza Garō. His second exhibition featured work from the same series, face-on images of buildings taken with a 4×5 large format camera.[2]

In 1961 Takanashi married Reiko Mizoguchi.

Between 1961 and 1970 he worked at Nippon Design Center doing commercial photography.

Takanashi was a member of the collective that produced Provoke magazine in 1968 and 1969.[3][4]

Takanashi had a tenured position at Tokyo Zokei University from 1980 until 2000 (a full professor from 1983), whereupon he retired but continued teaching there part-time.[1]

From 1992, Takanashi, Genpei Akasegawa and Yūtokutaishi Akiyama worked together in the group Raika Dōmei.

Takanashi won the Annual Award of the Photographic Society of Japan twice, in 1984 and 1993.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Selection of other joint exhibitions

This list does not include the exhibitions of Raika Dōmei.

Permanent collections

Takanashi's works are held by:

Bibliography

Books by Takanashi

Other works with contributions by Takanashi

This list does not include the books published as by Raika Dōmei.

On Takanashi

Notes

  1. ^ Details of this book may be found at the publisher's page about it.
  2. ^ The publisher's page about Warera no emono wa itteki no hikari is here.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Chronology", Takanashi Yutaka: Hikari no fīrudonōto / Yutaka Takanashi: Field Notes of Light (Tokyo: National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 2009), p.160. This exhibition catalogue is referred to below as Field Notes of Light.
  2. ^ Rei Masuda, "Field Notes of Light", Field Notes of Light, p.144.
  3. ^ Martin Parr; Gerry Badger (2004). The Photobook: A History, Volume I. London: Phaidon Press. pp. 269–271. ISBN 978-0-7148-4285-1.
  4. ^ Shirayama, Mari [in Japanese] (2003). "Major Photography Magazines". In Tucker, Anne Wilkes (ed.). The History of Japanese Photography. Houston, TX: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. p. 384. ISBN 978-0890901120.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Lists of exhibitions, Field Notes of Light, pp. 161, 163.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i Lists of exhibitions, Field Notes of Light, pp. 161, 163. The English title is as given in the list; this is probably just a translation made for the list.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i Lists of exhibitions, Field Notes of Light, pp. 161, 163. The English title is as given in the list; this is probably as used at the time.
  8. ^ Lists of exhibitions, Field Notes of Light, pp. 161, 163. The English title here is a rough translation.
  9. ^ List of past exhibitions at Art Gallery C-Square, Chukyo University. (in Japanese) Accessed 14 March 2009.
  10. ^ Exhibition notice Archived October 12, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, Photographers' Gallery. (in Japanese). Accessed 14 March 2009. The English title is a rough translation.
  11. ^ Exhibition notice Archived October 12, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, Photographers' Gallery. (in Japanese). Accessed 14 March 2009.
  12. ^ Exhibition notice Archived July 7, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, Tokyo Polytechnic University. (in Japanese) Accessed 14 March 2009.
  13. ^ Exhibition notice, Canon.jp. (in Japanese) Accessed 14 March 2009.
  14. ^ Exhibition notice, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. (in Japanese) Accessed 14 March 2009.
  15. ^ Exhibition notice Archived May 15, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne. (in English). Accessed 8 May 2010.
  16. ^ [1], Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris.
  17. ^ List of exhibits. (in Japanese) Accessed 14 March 2009.
  18. ^ Recommendation by Kōtarō Iizawa within "Pickup, vol. 19", fujifilm.co.jp. (in Japanese) Accessed 14 March 2009.
  19. ^ Exhibition notice, ICANOF. (in Japanese) Accessed 15 March 2009.
  20. ^ Exhibition notice, Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. (in Japanese) Accessed 15 March 2009.
  21. ^ "Shashin ga korekushon sarete iru bijutsukan, hakubutsukan Archived October 20, 2007, at the Wayback Machine" (PDF), Japan Professional Photographers Society, 2004. Accessed 14 March 2009. Norihiko Matsumoto (松本徳彦), ed., Nihon no bijutsukan to shashin korekushon (日本の美術館と写真コレクション, Japan's art galleries and photography collections; Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2002; ISBN 4-473-01894-6) (in Japanese), p.55.
  22. ^ Specified as the owner of exhibited works, "List of Exhibits", Field Notes of Light, pp. 165–71. Matsumoto, ed., Nihon no bijutsukan to shashin korekushon, p.39.
  23. ^ As denoted by Takanashi's inclusion, without a disclaimer, within Nihon shashinka jiten (日本写真家事典 / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers; Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000; ISBN 4-473-01750-8) (in Japanese).
  24. ^ Specified as the owner of exhibited works, "List of Exhibits", Field Notes of Light, pp. 165–71.
  25. ^ As listed in this Archived July 22, 2011, at the Wayback Machine and subsequent pages of the museum's online catalogue. (As accessed 14 March 2009. There does not appear to be any search interface, and the order of items listed is unclear; after later changes to the catalogue, the items by Takanashi may appear on different pages within it.)

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