Sakae Tamura (photographer), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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About Sakae Tamura (photographer)
- Sakae Tamura (?? ?, Tamura Sakae, September 17, 1906 - July 22, 1987) was a Japanese photographer, prominent in the years before the war. Born in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, Tamura graduated from the Tokyo College of Photography (????????, Tokyo Shashin Senmon Gakko; now Tokyo Polytechnic University) and entered Oriental (?????????, Orientaru Shashin Kogyo) in 1928 and became editor of Photo Times.
- He was an active contributor to the magazine Geijutsu Shashin Kenkyu and in the group Nihon Koga Kyokai (??????), created in 1928 and related to Nihon Koga Geijutsu Kyokai (????????).
- He was a leading figure in the New Photography Research Society (???????, Shinko Shashin Kenkyukai), formed in 1930. Tamura's work was influenced both by pictorialism and by New Photography. Tamura is particularly known for his portraits, and Shiroi hana (???, White flower, 1931) is the best known of these and widely anthologized.
- Okatsuka says that it expresses a certain lyricism but “displays a more sophisticated sense of maturity” than the works of his contemporaries Masataka Takayama and Jun Watanabe.
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