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Place of Birth: Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan
About Tadasuke Akiyama
- Tadasuke Akiyama (?? ??, Akiyama Tadasuke, born 17 March 1941) is a Japanese photographer. Born in Shinagawa, Tokyo, in 1941, Akiyama studied in the Faculty of Political Science of Waseda University and then went to Tokyo College of Photography, graduating in 1964.
- He became an assistant to Yasuhiro Ishimoto but very quickly turned freelance.
- With Haruo Sato, he created Wakai gunzo (????), 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 Sato. Akiyama traveled to east and west Europe just before the destruction of the Berlin Wall; he also photographed carnivals in the West Indies at around this time. Akiyama taught at Punjab College of Photography from 1970.
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