Toshio Yamane

Toshio Yamane (山根 敏郎 Yamane Toshio, born 1953) is a Japanese photographer known for his depictions of the juxtaposition of man-made structures on natural topography.

Yamane was born on 29 June 1953 in what is now Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. He studied German literature at Sophia University, graduating in 1977 and thereafter working at Asahi Shinbunsha (the publisher of Asahi Shimbun) until 1988, when he went freelance.

Yamane's color photographs of the waterfront of Tokyo Bay, taken on 4×5 film,[1] were exhibited at the Nikon Salon in 1986 and Gallery Min in 1989, and published in book form as Front in 1991. The book won Yamane a newcomer's prize in the 42nd PSJ awards in 1992.[2]

Yamane's photographs were exhibited with those by Yūji Saiga, Naoya Hatakeyama and Norio Kobayashi in an exhibition, Land of Paradox, that travelled around the US in 199697.[3]

Books

Notes

  1. Kōtarō Iizawa, review of Front, in Shashinshū o yomu: Besuto 338 kanzen gaido, p.214.
  2. Past PSJ awards, PSJ. (Japanese)
  3. Specifically, to Photographic Resource Center, Boston; Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach; Halsey Gallery, College of Charleston; Chrysler Museum, Norfolk. Janet Koplos, "Through a Japanese Viewfinder", Art in America, 1 March 1997. A review of the exhibition Land of Paradox.

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