Teisuke Chiba

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Teisuke Chiba(千葉 禎介,Chiba Teisuke, 1917–1965) was a renowned Japanese amateur photographer of rural life around the area where he lived in Akita, Japan.

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Akita Prefecture Prefecture of Japan

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Biography

Chiba was born in Kakunodate, Akita on 19 October 1917, and two years later moved to Yokote, Akita, an area where he would remain. After finishing high school in 1932, he started work in a kimono shop. [1] In 1935 he bought a Rokuoh Baby Pearl camera and started photographing the rural area where he lived, particularly its everyday life, winning prizes.

Kakunodate, Akita human settlement in Japan

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Yokote, Akita City in Tōhoku, Japan

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Konica was a Japanese manufacturer of, among other products, film, film cameras, camera accessories, photographic and photo-processing equipment, photocopiers, fax machines and laser printers. The company merged with Japanese peer Minolta in 2003, with the new company named Konica Minolta.

Immediately after the war Chiba's photographs appeared in the contests pages of Camera and other magazines, and he became a central figure in the photographic culture of Akita (a part of Japan that would attract Ihei Kimura, Hiroshi Hamaya and other photographers). From 1952 Chiba freelanced as an Akita-based photojournalist in his free time, but after half a year's hospitalization he closed his kimono shop and opened a shop in Yokote selling photographic supplies. From around this time Chiba concentrated on photographically documenting the history of the area.

Camera, or Ars CameraArsカメラ, Arusu Kamera), was one of the older and longer running of Japanese camera magazines. It was published by the company Ars.

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Chiba was hospitalized in October 1965 and died on 29 December 1965. In May of the following year, friends helped organize an exhibition of his posthumous works in Fuji Photo Salon, Tokyo. In 1992 his works were displayed prominently within an exhibition held by the Miyagi Museum of Art of postwar photography in Tōhoku. [2]

Tōhoku region Region

The Tōhoku region, Northeast region, or Northeast Japan consists of the northeastern portion of Honshu, the largest island of Japan. This traditional region consists of six prefectures (ken): Akita, Aomori, Fukushima, Iwate, Miyagi, and Yamagata.

The first booklength collection of Chiba's works came over thirty years after his death, in a slim volume of the series Nihon no Shashinka that serves as an anthology. [3]

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Notes

  1. ↑ A gofukuten (呉服店), a retailer of kimono and traditional Japanese clothing.
  2. ↑ Miyagi Museum of Art exhibition: Matsumoto, p.21.
  3. ↑ See comments by Ōhashi (大橋仁) in Shashinshū o yomu 2, p.207.

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