Hiroshi Hamaya (濱谷 浩[n 1], Hamaya Hiroshi, 28 March 1915 – 6 or 15 March 1999[1]) was a Japanese photographer active from 1935 to 1999.[2] In particular, Hamaya was known for his photographs of rural Japan.[3]
Hamaya was born in Shitaya, Tokyo, on 28 March 1915.[2] Between 1942 and 1945 he contributed to Front, the propaganda photo journal of the Tōhō-sha company.[4]
By 1955 one of Hiroshi Hamaya's photographs, a high-angle view of kimono-clad springtime dancers led by his wife, was included by curator Edward Steichen in the world-touring Museum of Modern Art exhibition The Family of Man that was seen by more than 9 million visitors.
In 1956, Hamaya published his acclaimed photobook "Snow Country" (Yukiguni) featuring photographs of Japan's frigid northeastern Tōhoku region in winter.[citation needed]
In 1960, Hamaya took part in the massive Anpo protests against revision of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, and published a book of his photographs of the protesters titled "A Record of Anger and Sadness" (Ikari to kanashimi no kiroku), reflecting Hamaya's disappointment that the protests failed to stop the treaty.[3]
Senkō shashinjutsu (閃光寫眞術[n 3]). Ars Shashin Bunko (アルス寫眞文庫). Tokyo: Ars, 1941. A handbook on flash photography.
Yukiguni: Hamaya Hiroshi shashinshū: Kamera Mainichi bessatsu (雪国 濱谷浩写真集 カメラ毎日別冊). Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1956. Photographs of Japan's "snow country", the northeast coast of Honshū. Published in conjunction with Camera Mainichi.
Ura Nihon: Hamaya Hiroshi shashinshū (裏日本 濱谷浩写真集) / Japan's Back Coast. Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1957. The title means "back-country Japan".
Henkyō no machi (邊境の町[n 4]) / Urumchi. Sekai Shashinka Shirīzu (世界写真家シリーズ). Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1957. Photographs of Ürümqi.
Mite kita Chūgoku (見てきた中国) / The China I Have Seen. Tokyo: Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 1958. A separate booklet contains an English translation.
Shi no furusato (詩のふるさと). Tokyo: Chūōkōronsha, 1958.
Hamaya Hiroshi shashinshū (浜谷浩作品集). Gendai Nihon shashin zenshū (現代日本写真全集). Tokyo: Sōgensha, 1958. Number 3 in a set of nine booklets of Japanese photography, the only other photographers having entire booklets devoted to their work being Ihei Kimura and Ken Domon.
Kodomo fūdoki (こども風土記) / Children in Japan. Tokyo: Chūōkōronsha, 1959. Photographs of children in Japan.
Ikari to kanashimi no kiroku (怒りと悲しみの記録). Tokyo: Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 1960.
Nihon rettō (日本列島) / Landscapes of Japan. Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1964.
Hiroshi Hamaya. I Grandi Fotografi. [Milano]: Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri, [1982].
Gakugei shoka (學藝諸家[n 6]) / Gakugei Shoka. Tokyo: Iwanami, 1983. 2nd ed. Tokyo: Iwanami, 1991. ISBN4-00-000300-3. Black and white portraits of writers and other people in the arts, 1937–82. Texts in Japanese, captions in Japanese and English.
Hiroshi Hamaya. Los Grandes Fotografos. Barcelona: Ediciones Orbis, 1984.
Nyonin rekijitsu: Hamaya Asa tsuitō shashinchō (女人暦日 濱谷朝追悼写真帖) / Calendar days of Asaya Hamaya, 1948–1950. Ōiso, Kanagawa: Hamaya Hiroshi, 1985. A portfolio of photographs of Hamaya's wife taken 1948–1950, issued as a memorial to her after her death.
Shōwa nyoninshū: Shashinshū (昭和女人集 写真集) / Women in the Showa Era. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbun-sha, 1985.
Hamaya Hiroshi ten: ICP masutā-obu-fotogurafī-shō jushō kinen (濱谷浩展 ICPマスター・オブ・フォトグラフィー賞受賞記念) / Hiroshi Hamaya: Fifty-Five Years of Photography. Tokyo: PPS Tsūshinsha, 1986.
Emergence de la terre. Neuilly: Éditions Hologramme, 1986. With a preface by Marc Riboud.
Hamaya Hiroshi: Shashin taiken 60 nen (濱谷浩 写真体験60年). Hiratsuka, Kanagawa: Hiratsuka Museum of Art, 1991. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Hiratsuka Museum of Art.
Shashin no seiki: Hamaya Hiroshi shashin taiken roku-jū-roku-nen (写真の世紀 濱谷浩写真体験六六年). Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1997. Catalogue of an exhibition of 66 years' work by Hamaya held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.
Fukuen zuisho no hitobito (福縁隨處の人びと[n 7]). Tokyo: Sōjunsha, 1998. ISBN4-7943-0528-1. Black and white portraits of writers and other people in the arts. Texts and captions in Japanese.
Ichi no oto: 1930-nendai Tōkyō: Hamaya Hiroshi sakuhinshū (市の音 一九三〇年代・東京 濱谷浩写真集). Tokyo: Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 2009. ISBN978-4-309-27108-8. Photographs of Tokyo in the 1930s.
Ichi no oto: Machi no sazanuki: 1930-nendai Tōkyō: Hamaya Hiroshi sakuhinten (市の音・街のさざめき 1930年代・東京 濱谷浩作品展). JCII Photo Salon Library 238. Tokyo: JCII, 2011. Booklet accompanying an exhibition of photographs of Tokyo in the 1930s.
Other publications with major contributions by Hamaya
Judith Keller and Amanda Maddox, eds. Japan's Modern Divide: The Photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2013. ISBN978-1-60606-132-9. Catalogue of an exhibition of the work of Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto.
^In modern script, this is 浜谷浩: Hamaya and his publishers seem to have used the older character for hama (濱) rather consistently even after the nationwide orthographic reform, but his name is sometimes found written with the simplified character.
^According to Hopkinson, on 15 March; according to Mihashi, on 6 March.
^Old orthography (then current) for shashinjutsu; in modern form this would be 写真術.
^The photographer or publisher's deliberate use of old orthography for henkyō; in modern form this would be 辺境.
^ abMihashi Sumiyo (三橋純予), "Hamaya Hiroshi", in Nihon shashinka jiten (日本写真家事典) / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers (Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000; ISBN4-473-01750-8), p.254. (in Japanese) In Japanese only, despite the additional English title.
