Yutaka Takanashi

Yutaka Takanashi (高梨豊, "Takanashi Yutaka") is a Japanese photographer who has photographed fashion, urban design, and city life.

Life and career

Takanashi was born on 6 February 1935 in Ushigome-ku (now Shinjuku, Tokyo. In 1943 he was evacuated to Saitama (Saitama). In 1953 he graduated from high school and entered the photography department of Nihon University. He was given a Canon IVSb (his first camera).

In 1956 Takanashi's photographs won prizes within "Sankei Camera" magazine. He graduated in 1957, and tried and failed to enter various news companies, settling for work in a darkroom in Ginza. His university graduation work was published in the September issue of "Sankei Camera." He also entered Kuwabara Design School in 1957, graduating from it in 1961.

In May 1960 he had his first one-man show, "Somethin' Else", in Ginza Garō. In 1961 he joined Japan Design Center in which he did commercial photography; he also married Mizoguchi Reiko.

In 1970 Takanashi resigned from Japan Design Center.

Takanashi won the Annual Award of the Photographic Society of Japan twice, in 1984 and 1993.

Takanashi's works are held by the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum.

Books of Takanashi's photographs

*"Toshi e" (『都市へ』, "To the city"). Self-published, 1974.
*"Tōkyōjin" (『東京人』). Self-published, 1974.
*ja icon "Machi" (『町』, "Town"). Tokyo: Asahi Shinbun, 1977. The pages of the book itself have no captions or text; a brochure supplied with the book identifies the precise address of every photograph.
*"Shin Oku no hosomichi" (『新おくのほそ道』) / "The New "Oku no Hosomichi" Revisited." Nihon no Kokoro. Tokyo: Shūeisha, 1982. Fifty views along "Oku no hosomichi".
*"Tōkyōjin 1978-1983" (『東京人 1978〜1983』). Tokyo: Shoshi Yamada, 1983.
*"Takakura Ken shashinshū Eizō 25" (『高倉健写真集 映像25』) 1983.
*"Miyako no bō" (『都の貌』). Tokyo: IPC, 1989. ISBN 4-87198-796-5
*"Menbō yakujo: Jinbutsu shashin kuronikuru" (『面目躍如人 物写真クロニクル　1964～1989』) Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1990. ISBN 4-582-27721-7
*"Hatsukuni" (『初国』) / "Pre-Landscape." Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1993. ISBN 4-582-27727-6
*ja icon "Takanashi Yutaka" (『高梨豊』) / "Takanashi Yutaka." Nihon no Shashinka, vol. 35. Tokyo: Iwanami, 1998. ISBN 4-00-008375-9 A survey of Takanashi's work in black and white, with 48 plates.
* "Chimeiron" (『地名論』) / "Genius Loci, Tokyo." Tokyo: Mainichi Communications, 2000. ISBN 4-8399-0438-3
* "Raika no me" (『ライカな眼』). Tokyo: Mainichi Communications, 2002. ISBN 4-8399-0708-0
*"Nosutarujia" (『ノスタルジア』) / "Nostalghia." Tokyo: Heibonsha, 2004. ISBN 4-582-27756-X
*"Kakoi machi" (『囲市』) / "Kakoi-machi." Tokyo: Creo, 2007. ISBN 978-4-87736-116-7. Color photographs of Tokyo and its environs. The captions (month and place) are in English only, the (little) other text is in Japanese only.

Other works with contributions by Takanashi

*"Raimei no kubikazari: Takiguchi Shūzō ni" 雷鳴の頚飾り 滝口修造に Tokyo: Raimei no kubikazari Kankōkai, 1979.
*With Genpei Akasegawa and Yūtokutaishi Akiyama.「ライカ同盟　パリ開放」Tokyo: アルファベータ, 2001. ISBN 4-87198-473-7
*With Genpei Akasegawa and Yūtokutaishi Akiyama.「東京涸井戸鏡（カレイドスコープ）ライカ同盟」Tokyo: アルファベータ, 2002. ISBN 4-87198-530-X

ources and external links

*ja icon [http://www.fujifilm.co.jp/photographer/2004_07takanashi/profile.html Profile of Takanashi]
*ja icon "Takanashi Yutaka" (『高梨豊』) / "Takanashi Yutaka." Nihon no Shashinka, vol. 35. Tokyo: Iwanami, 1998. ISBN 4-00-008375-9
*ja icon "Nihon shashinka jiten" (『日本写真家事典』, "328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers"). Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN 4-473-01750-8
*"Works by 25 Photographers in their 20s." Catalogue of an exhibition held at Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts in 1995. Parallel text in Japanese and English.
* [http://www.photojpn.org/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=208 Yutaka Takanashi] at PhotoGuide Japan