Hachiro Suzuki - Hachiro Suzuki Photographs - 1988

Numerous photographic plates. Japanese text. Original cloth in dustwrapper, a very good copy. 143pp. Suzuki Hachiro (1900-1985) was born in Hokkaido. He moved to Tokyo at age eleven and in 1916 entered the Waseda Engineering School to study architecture. It was during his time as a student that he became interested in photography and he submitted photographs to Shashin Geppo. He formed a friendship with the photographer Takakuwata Katsuo (1883-1955) who inspired him to seek a career in the field. Together with Kanamaru Shigene he opened a commercial photo-studio called Kinrei-sha in 1926 and in 1930 was a co-founder of the Tokyo Commerical Photographers Association. He published a large number of photography manuals for ARS and after the war continued to work as editor for a number of important photography magazines. Published in some three years after his death the present work comes close to being an isaku-shu. No copy in OCLC.