Photobooks | TAKANASHI, Yutaka

About Japanese photographer Yutaka TAKANASHI (高梨豊, b.1935, in Shirogane-chō, Ushigome-ku (now Shinjuku), Tokyo)

Yutaka TAKANASHI has photographed fashion, urban design, and city life, and is best known for his depiction of Tokyo. He graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Aoyama High School in 1953 and entered the photography department of Nihon University. In 1956, his photographs won awards from Sankei Camera magazine. He graduated from university in 1957, and tried but failed to enter various news companies, settling for darkroom work in Ginza for the photographer Osamu YAGI (八木治). His university graduation work was published in the September issue of Sankei Camera. After meeting Kiyoji ŌTSUJI, he entered Kuwasawa Design School in 1959, graduating in 1961. His first solo exhibition he had in May 1960, showing his series 'Somethin' Else. Between 1961 and 1970 he worked at Nippon Design Center doing commercial photography. Yutaka TAKANASHI was a member of the collective that produced Provoke magazine in 1968 and 1969, together with photo critic Kōji Taki, Takuma NAKAHIRA and writer Takahiko Okada (Daidō MORIYAMA joined from the second issue). From 1980, he had a tenured position at Tokyo Zokei University until 2000 (a full professor from 1983), whereupon he retired but continued teaching there part-time. From 1992, he worked together with Genpei AKASEGAWA and Yūtokutaishi AKIYAMA together in the group 'Raika Dōmei'.

Photo books by as well as with works by Yutaka TAKANASHI

'Provoke' (1968-69, complete reprint 2018); 'Toshi-e (都市へ / Towards the city") & 'Tōkyōjin nōto (東京人ノート, 1974); '15-nin no shashinka (15人の写真家 / 15 Photographers Today, 1974); 'Machi (町 / Town, 1977); 'Jinzō (人像, 1979); 'Toshi wa yume mizu (都市は夢みず, 1979, together with Takahiko Okada (岡田隆彦); 'Shin Oku no hosomichi (新おくのほそ道) / The New 'Oku no Hosomichi' Revisited. Nihon no Kokoro, 1982); 'Tōkyōjin 1978-1983 (東京人 1978〜1983, 1983); 'Takakura Ken shashinshū Eizō 25 (高倉健写真集映像25, 1983); '11-nin no 1965–75: Nihon no shashin wa kaeraretaka (11人の1965～75　日本の写真は変えられたか / 11 Photographers in Japan, 1965–75, 1989); 'Miyako no kao (都の貌 / Visages of a Metropolis, 1989, 1992); 'Menbō yakujo. Jinbutsu shashin kuronikuru (面目躍如人物写真クロニクル　1964～1989, 1990); 'Tōkyō: Toshi no shisen (東京　都市の視線 / Tokyo: A City Perspective, 1990); 'Hatsukuni (初國) / Pre-Landscape, 1993); '25-nin no 20-dai no shashin (25人の20代の写真 / Works by 25 Photographers in their 20s, 1995); 'Sengo bunka no kiseki 1945–1995' (戦後文化の軌跡1945–1995) / Japanese Culture: The 50 Postwar Years, 1995); 'Chimeiron (地名論 / Genius Loci, 2000); 'Raika no me (ライカな眼, 2002); 'Nosutarujia (ノスタルジア) / Nostalghia, 2004); 'Kakoi machi (囲市, 2007); 'Photography 1965–1974' (2010); 'Yutaka Takanashi: Toshi-e. Books on Books 6' (2010); 'Nitchi Tōkyō (ニッチ東京 / Niche Tokyo, 2015); 'Provoke: Between Protest and Performance Photography in Japan 1960/1975' (2016); 'Ravens & Red Lipstick. Japanese Photography since 1945' (2018, 2024);