Yutaka Takanashi

is a Japanese photographer who has photographed fashion, urban design, and city life, and is best known for his depiction of Tokyo.

Life and career Takanashi was born on 6 February 1935 in Shirogane-chō, Ushigome-ku (now Shinjuku), Tokyo. In 1943 he was evacuated to Saitama (Saitama). In 1953 he graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Aoyama High School and entered the photography department of Nihon University.

In 1961 Takanashi married Reiko Mizoguchi.

Between 1961 and 1970 he worked at Nippon Design Center doing commercial photography.

Takanashi was a member of the collective that produced Provoke magazine in 1968 and 1969.

Takanashi had a tenured position at Tokyo Zokei University from 1980 until 2000 (a full professor from 1983), whereupon he retired but continued teaching there part-time. "Hyōteki" (, Target). Ginza Garō (Ginza, Tokyo), 1962. "Tenshi kikō" (, White Houri). Wako (Ginza, Tokyo), 1974. "Jinzō II" (, Human Images II). Minolta Photo Space (Tokyo), 1986. "Takanashi Yutaka gyararī" / "Yutaka Takanashi Gallery". Canon Makuhara Wonder Museum (Chiba City), 1999. "Tōkyō Zōkei Daigaku taishoku kinen shashin-kōza-ten: Takanashi Yutaka 'Shashin, hito ni yotte'" . Tokyo Zokei University Yokoyama Memorial Manzù Art Museum (Hachiōji, Tokyo), 2000. "Wind Scape". Shoo Museum of the Arts (Shōō, Okayama), 2003. "Hatsukuni" / "Pre-landscape". Shadai Gallery (Tokyo Polytechnic University, Nakano, Tokyo), September–October 2006. "Kakoi machi" . Canon Gallery S (Minato, Tokyo), March–June 2007. "Takanashi Yutaka: Hikari no fīrudonōto" / "Yutaka Takanashi: Field Notes of Light". National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, January–March 2009. "Yutaka Takanashi: Photography 1965-74". Galerie Priska Pasquer (Cologne), April–June 2010. "Yutaka Takanashi". Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, Paris. May 10 - July 29, 2012.

Selection of other joint exhibitions

This list does not include the exhibitions of Raika Dōmei.

"Gendai shashin no 10-nin" / "Ten Artists of Contemporary Japanese Photography". National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 1966. "Unasera di Tōkyō: Anohi anotokio: Zanzō no Tōkyō monogatari 1935–1992" . Setagaya Art Museum (Setagaya), Tokyo, April–May 2005. "Meganeura 2005" / "ICANOF Media Art Show 2005 'Meganeura'". Hachinohe City Museum of Art (Hachinohe, Aomori), September–October 2005. "Barabara ni natta karada" / "Body in Pieces". Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, October–December 2006.

Permanent collections Takanashi's works are held by: Setagaya Art Museum (Setagaya, Tokyo) National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography Tokyo Zokei University Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art