- Tadasuke Akiyama
is a renowned
Japan esephotographer .Born in Shinagawa,
Tokyo , in 1941, Akiyama studied in the Faculty of Political Science ofWaseda University and then went toTokyo College of Photography , graduating in 1964. He became an assistant toYasuhiro Ishimoto but very quickly turned freelance. With Haruo Satō, he created "Wakai gunzō" (nihongo2|若い群像), a series of photographs of young people within crowds, taken close up with a wide-angle lens that won acclaim; it led to a series of collaborations with Satō.Akiyama traveled to east and west Europe just before the destruction of the
Berlin Wall ; he also photographedcarnival s in the West Indies at around this time.Akiyama taught at Tokyo College of Photography from 1970.
Books by Akiyama
*"Kokkyō Rurō" (nihongo2|国境流浪). Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1990. ISBN 4-582-82377-7.
*"Kūsatsu Dai-Tōkyō" (nihongo2|空撮大東京). Tokyo: Shōbunsha, 1991. ISBN 4-398-22151-4.
*"Nihon kūchū kikō" (nihongo2|日本空中紀行) / "Sky Landscape." Tokyo: Jiji Tsūshin, 1994. ISBN 4-7887-9401-2.
*"Kokkyō Rurō" (nihongo2|国境流浪) / "Wandering about the Boundaries." 2 vols. Kyoto: Kyōto Shorin, 1998. ISBN 4-7636-1708-7 (vol. 1), ISBN 4-7636-1709-5 (vol. 2).
*"Nippon air scope: Tori no yō ni kaze no yō ni" (Nippon air scope: nihongo2|鳥のように風のように). Kyoto: Kyōto Shorin, 1999. ISBN 4-7636-1711-7.
*"Tokyo air scope: Kūchū ni sankyaku o tateru" (nihongo2|空中に三脚を立てる). Kyoto: Kyōto Shorin, 1999. ISBN 4-7636-1726-5.
* "Farmer." Tokyo: Tōseisha, 2000. ISBN 4-924725-97-8.
* "Nogyō o yarō!" (nihongo2|農業をやろう!). Tokyo: Sankaidō, 2000. ISBN 4-381-10372-6.References
*"Nihon shashinka jiten" (nihongo2|日本写真家事典) / "328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers." Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN 4-473-01750-8. P.20.ja icon Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese.
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