Taku Aramasa

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Taku Aramasa^[1] (新正卓, Aramasa Taku^?, born 1936) is a renowned Japanese photographer.

Born in Tokyo on 15 August 1936, Aramasa moved with his family to Manchukuo in 1940. In 1948 he moved to Sakata, Yamagata. He graduated from Musashino Art School (武蔵野美術学校, Musashino Bijutsu Gakkō^?) (now Musashino Art University) in 1960, and set up a design company in which he was an art director, but became a freelance in 1970. He worked as a fashion photographer in Paris from 1973 to 1976. In 1980 he met his parents, from whom he had been separated, and started work on a photographic contribution to the effort of reuniting Japanese war orphans and their biological parents. This work branched into the photography of people of Japanese descent in Hawai'i and south America.

A Portrait of Japanese Immigrants to South America won the Domon Ken Award in 1986; Aramasa subsequently won various other awards.

Aramasa taught at Musashino Art University from 1993.

[edit] Books

[edit] Books by Aramasa

Gyakkō sango shō (逆光サンゴ礁). Tokyo: Bunka Shuppankyoku, 1974.
Aramasa Taku shashinshū (新正卓写真集). Tokyo: 北斗企画.
- 3. Anita Russell. 1977.
- 4. Carnaval. 1979.
Carnaval: Aramassa e os anjos. Tokyo: Canon, 1979.
To My Angels. 2nd ed. Tokyo: Zenkoku Kajo Hōrei Shuppan, 1983. ISBN 4-210-15261-4.
Haruka naru sokoku (遥かなる祖国) / A Portrait of Japanese Immigrants to South America. Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1985. ISBN 4-02-255402-9. Text in Japanese and English.
Shūchō no keifu (酋長の系譜) / Portraits of Native America. Tokyo: Kōdansha, 1993. ISBN 4-06-206731-5.
Monchiku no daichi / Shiberia (沈黙の大地/シベリア). Tokyo: Chikuma Shobō, 1995. ISBN 4-480-87274-4.
Yakusoku no daichi / Amerika (約束の大地/アメリカ) / America / Promised Land. Tokyo: Misuzu Shobō, 2000. ISBN 4-622-04422-6. Text in Japanese and English.
Mokushi (黙示). Musashino, Tokyo: Musashino Daigaku Shuppankyoku, 2006. ISBN 4-901631-73-X.

[edit] Other books showing Aramasa's work

(Japanese) Nihon nūdo meisakushū (日本ヌード名作集, Japanese nudes). Camera Mainichi bessatsu. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1982. Pp. 262–3 show a pair of photographs by Aramasa.

[edit] Notes

^ Aramasa sometimes writes his name "Aramassa" (in roman script and with two ses), even in contexts for Japanese.

[edit] References

(Japanese) Nihon shashinka jiten (日本写真家事典) / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN 4-473-01750-8. In Japanese only, despite its English-language alternative title.