Taku Aramasa

is a Japanese photographer.

Early life Born in Tokyo, Aramasa moved with his family to Manchukuo in 1940. In 1948 he moved to Sakata, Yamagata. He graduated from (now Musashino Art University) in 1960.

Photography career After graduating art school, Aramasa set up a design company in which he was an art director, but became a freelance in 1970. He worked as a fashion photographer in Paris from 1973 to 1976.

In 1980 he met his parents, from whom he had been separated, and started work on a photographic contribution to the effort of reuniting Japanese war orphans and their biological parents. This work branched into the photography of people of Japanese descent in Hawai'i and South America.

A Portrait of Japanese Immigrants to South America won the Domon Ken Award in 1986; Aramasa subsequently won various other awards. Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California Gallery Out of Place, Nara, Japan Museum of Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan

Books

Books by Aramasa

Gyakkō sango shō Bunka Shuppan-kyoku, 1974 ERIKA : ARAMASA Taku Photographs, Hokuō-sha, 1976 Patricia : ARAMASA Taku Photographs, Hokuto-kikaku, 1977 AMERICAN PARODY : ARAMASA Taku Photographs, Hokuto-kikaku, 1977 Carnaval : ARAMASA Taku Photographs, Canon, 1979 To My Angels : ARAMASA Taku Photographs, Zenkoku Shuppan, 1983 A Portrait of Japanese Immigrants to South America : ARAMASA Taku Photographs, Asahi Shinbunsha, 1985. . Text in Japanese and English (English translation by Lora Sharnoff) Who Am I "War Orphans Left in China" : ARAMASA Taku Photographs, Who Am I Publishing Committee, 1990 Portraits of Native America : ARAMASA Taku Photographs, Kōdansha, 1993. The Silent Land Prison Camps in Siberia : ARAMASA Taku Photographs, Chikuma Shobō, 1995. America Promised Land : ARAMASA Taku Photographs, Misuzu Shobō, 2000. . Text in Japanese and English Apocalypse : ARAMASA Taku Photographs, Musashino Art University, 2006. ARAMASA Taku Photographs – Apocalypse E-book : Musashino Art University, 2007 ARAMASA Taku Photographs – 1961~2006 E-book : Musashino Art University, 2007 ARAMASA SAKURA – in black box / in black room : Edition 1/1, 2010 ARAMASA Taku 2014 HORIZON Catalogue© London, Annely Juda Fine Art, 2014

Other books showing Aramasa's work Nihon nūdo meisakushū (日本ヌード名作集, Japanese nudes). Camera Mainichi bessatsu. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1982. Pp. 262–3 show a pair of photographs by Aramasa.