Shigeru Tamura (photographer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Shigeru Tamura (photographer)

photographer

Date of Birth: 28-Feb-1909

Place of Birth: Sapporo, Hokkaidō Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 16-Dec-1987

Profession: photographer, photojournalist, journalist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

For a younger photographer of the same name, see Akihide Tamura. Shigeru Tamura (?? ?, Tamura Shigeru, 28 February 1909 – 16 December 1987) was a Japanese photographer notable for his work in fashion and photojournalism. Tamura was born in Sapporo, Hokkaido.
Shigeru was an assumed name; Tamura's personal name was probably Torashige.
He studied photography at the Oriental School of Photography (??????????, Orientaru Shashin Gakko); graduating in 1929.
With Yoshio Watanabe, in 1935 he set up a studio for advertising and other photography in Ginza, Tokyo.
He was highly successful as a fashion photographer, notably in work for the magazine Fujin Gaho from 1937.
Together with Ken Domon and others, he set up the Young People's Photojournalism Research Society (Seinen Hodoshashin Kenkyukai) in 1938. Tamura emerged from the war as a photographer of social issues in Japan, approaching them from a pacifist and left-wing angle.
He also traveled, producing books on the Arab world and North Vietnam.
In 1963 he set up the Japan Realist Photographers Association (Nihon Riarizumu Shashin Shudan). In the 1970s Tamura documented the topography and cultural patrimony of Japan.
He died in 1987.