is a
Japanese
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photographer
A photographer (the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who uses a camera to make photographs.
Duties and types of photograp ...
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Born in
Shinagawa
is a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan. The Ward refers to itself as Shinagawa City in English. The Ward is home to ten embassies.
, the Ward had an estimated population of 380,293 and a population density of 16,510 persons per ...
, Tokyo, in 1941, Akiyama studied in the Faculty of Political Science of
Waseda University
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and then went to
Tokyo College of Photography
The was set up in Nakano, Tokyo in 1958, as Tokyo Photo School (, ''Tōkyō Foto Sukūru''); its current name dates from 1960. During the 1960s, it moved to Hiyoshi (Yokohama), where it has remained.
Notable graduates
* Tadasuke Akiyama
* Taka ...
, graduating in 1964. He became an assistant to
Yasuhiro Ishimoto but very quickly turned freelance. With
Haruo Satō, he created ''Wakai gunzō'' (), 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
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; he also photographed
carnival
Carnival (known as Shrovetide in certain localities) is a festive season that occurs at the close of the Christian pre-Lenten period, consisting of Quinquagesima or Shrove Sunday, Shrove Monday, and Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras.
Carnival typi ...
s in the
West Indies
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at around this time.
Akiyama taught at Punjab College of Photography from 1970.
Books by Akiyama
*''Kokkyō Rurō'' (). Tokyo: Heibonsha, 2010. .
*''Kūsatsu Dai-Tōkyō'' (). Tokyo: Shōbunsha, 1991. .
*''Nihon kūchū kikō'' () / ''Sky Landscape.'' Tokyo: Jiji Tsūshin, 1994. .
*''Kokkyō Rurō'' () / ''Wandering about the Boundaries.'' 2 vols. Kyoto: Kyōto Shorin, 1998. (vol. 1), (vol. 2).
*''Nippon air scope: Tori no yō ni kaze no yō ni'' (Nippon air scope: ). Kyoto: Kyōto Shorin, 1999. .
*''Tokyo air scope: Kūchū ni sankyaku o tateru'' (). Kyoto: Kyōto Shorin, 1999. .
* ''Farmer.'' Tokyo: Tōseisha, 2000. .
* ''Nogyō o yarō!'' (). Tokyo: Sankaidō, 2000. .
References
*''Nihon shashinka jiten'' () / ''328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers.'' Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. . P.20. Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese.
Japanese photographers
1941 births
Living people
People from Shinagawa
Tokyo College of Photography alumni
Waseda University alumni
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