Kanbei Hanaya
Kanbei Hanaya (ハナヤ 勘兵衛, Hanaya Kanbei, 1903–1991) was a Japanese photographer.[1][2] He was born in Osaka in 1903. In his twenties, he travelled in China and studied photography in Shanghai. In 1929, he purchased a photography supply shop in Ashiya, a city in Japan's Hyōgo Prefecture. The , a prominent feature of the movement, formed at the shop in 1930. Its membership included Iwata Nakayama, , , and . The group began exhibiting in 1930 and published its first yearbook in 1931.[2]
From May 1932 to December 1933, Hanaya published in the modernist journal Koga.[2][3] He helped found the in 1934. After World War II, he actively promoted photography in Kansai via networking and gallery promotion.[2] He was awarded a distinguished contribution award from the Photographic Society of Japan in 1986.[2]
References[]
- ^ (in Japanese) Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, editor. 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers (『日本写真家事典』, Nihon shashinka jiten). Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN 4-473-01750-8
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Tucker, Anne; Friis-Hansen, Dana; Iizawa, Kōtarō; Ryuichi, Kaneko; Kinoshita, Naoyuki; Joe, Takeba (2003). The History of Japanese Photography. Yale University Press. p. 340. ISBN 0300099258.
- ^ Ross, Kerry (2015-06-24). Photography for Everyone: The Cultural Lives of Cameras and Consumers in Early Twentieth-Century Japan. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804795630.
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