- Names
- 東松照明
- TŌMATSU Shōmei (index name)
- Tōmatsu Shōmei (display name)
- 東松照明 (Japanese display name)
- とうまつ しょうめい (transliterated hiragana)
- Date of birth
- 1930-01-16
- Birth place
- Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
- Date of death
- 2012-12-14
- Death place
- Naha City, Okinawa Prefecture
- Gender
- Male
- Fields of activity
- Photography
- 2013
- “Tōmatsu Shōmei Ōraru Hisutorī (Oral History). 2011-08-06.” Oral History Archives of Japanese Art. Last modified 2013-01-12. http://www.oralarthistory.org/archives/tomatsu_shomei/interview_01.php
- 2019
- Tokyo Bunkazai Kenkyūjo (Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties). “Tōmatsu Shōmei.” Nihon Bijutsu Nenkan Shosai Bukkosha Kiji. Last modified 2019-06-06. (in Japanese). https://www.tobunken.go.jp/materials/bukko/204410.html
日本美術年鑑 / Year Book of Japanese Art
「東松照明」『日本美術年鑑』平成25年版(424-425頁)写真家の東松照明は、12月14日肺炎のため那覇市内の病院で死去した。享年82。 1930(昭和5)年1月16日愛知県名古屋市に生まれる。本名・照明(てるあき)。50年愛知大学経済学部に入学。写真部に入部し、カメラ雑誌の月例公募欄への応募などの制作活動とともに、52年の全日本学生写真連盟の結成に向けた活動にも携わる。54年同大学を卒業、上京し『岩波写真文庫』の特別嘱託を経て、56年よりフリーランスと...
Wikipedia
Shōmei Tōmatsu (東松 照明, Tōmatsu Shōmei, January 16, 1930 – December 14, 2012) was a Japanese photographer.Born in Nagoya in 1930, Tōmatsu studied economics at Aichi University, graduating in 1954. While still a student, he had his photographs published by the major Japanese photography magazines. He entered Iwanami and worked on the series Iwanami Shashin Bunko. Two years later, he left in order to freelance.In 1959, Tōmatsu formed Vivo with Eikoh Hosoe and Ikkō Narahara. Two years later, his and Ken Domon's book Hiroshima–Nagasaki Document 1961, on the effects of the atomic bombs, was published to great acclaim.In 1972, he moved to Okinawa; in 1975, his prizewinning book of photographs of Okinawa, Pencil of the Sun (太陽の鉛筆, Taiyō no enpitsu) was published.Tōmatsu moved to Nagasaki in 1998. Tōmatsu died in Naha (Okinawa) on 14 December 2012 (although this was not publicly announced until January 2013).
- 2023-05-11