Taku Aramasa

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"Aramasa Taku Photographs - Apocalypse," Museum of Musashino Art University, Tokyo (2006) ARAMASATaku.jpg
"Aramasa Taku Photographs – Apocalypse," Museum of Musashino Art University, Tokyo (2006)

Taku Aramasa [1] (新正 卓, Aramasa Taku, born 15 August 1936) is a Japanese photographer.

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Early life

Born in Tokyo, Aramasa moved with his family to Manchukuo in 1940. In 1948 he moved to Sakata, Yamagata. He graduated from Musashino Art School (武蔵野美術学校, Musashino Bijutsu Gakkō) (now Musashino Art University) in 1960.

Photography career

After graduating art school, Aramasa set up a design company in which he was an art director, but became a freelance in 1970. He worked as a fashion photographer in Paris from 1973 to 1976.

In 1980 he met his parents, from whom he had been separated, and started work on a photographic contribution to the effort of reuniting Japanese war orphans and their biological parents. This work branched into the photography of people of Japanese descent in Hawai'i and South America. [2]

A Portrait of Japanese Immigrants to South America won the Domon Ken Award in 1986; Aramasa subsequently won various other awards. [2]

Aramasa has taught at Musashino Art University from 1993. [2]

Exhibitions

Awards

Collections

Books

Books by Aramasa

Other books showing Aramasa's work

Notes

  1. Aramasa sometimes writes his name "Aramassa" (in roman script and with two "s"es), even in contexts for Japanese.
  2. 1 2 3 Niwa Harumi (丹羽晴美), "Aramasa Taku", Nihon shashinka jiten (日本写真家事典) / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers (Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000; ISBN   4-473-01750-8), p.28. In Japanese only, despite the English-language alternative title of the book.
  3. Note Aramasa's inclusion within Nihon shashinka jiten / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers, a companion to the gallery.

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