Hiroshi Yamazaki

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Hiroshi Yamazaki (山崎博, Yamazaki Hiroshi, b. 21 September 1946) is a Japanese photographer whose works concentrate on the sun and the sea.

Born in Nagano, he studied at Nihon University but dropped out in 1968, starting out as a freelance cameraman a year later, working in both still photography and 16mm film.

Yamazaki is best known for two series. "Heliography"^[1] uses long exposures to show the path of the sun near the horizon. "Horizon" (Suiheisen saishū) is a study of sea horizons.

Yamazaki won the 26th Ina Nobuo Award in 2001.

Yamazaki has taught at Tohoku University of Art and Design and Musashino Art University.

[edit] Notes

^ In Japanese heriogurafī, both being borrowings from the héliographie of Nicéphore Niépce.

[edit] Books by Yamazaki

Heliography. Tokyo: Seikyūsha 1983. ISBN
Suiheisen saishū: Yamazaki Hiroshi shashinshū (水平線採集：山崎博写真集) / Horizon. Tokyo: Rikuyōsha, 1984. ISBN 4-89737-094-9
Hiroshi Yamazaki: Critical landscape. Tokyo: Hillside Gallery, 1990.

[edit] Other books with work by Yamazaki

Shashin toshi Tōkyō (『写真都市TOKYO』) / Tokyo/City of Photos. Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1995. Catalogue of an exhibition held in 1995. (Other photographers whose work appears are Takanobu Hayashi, Hiroh Kikai, Ryūji Miyamoto, Daidō Moriyama, Shigeichi Nagano, Ikkō Narahara, Mitsugu Ōnishi, Masato Seto, Issei Suda, Akihide Tamura, and Tokuko Ushioda.) Captions and texts in both Japanese and English.
Stack, Trudy Wilner, ed. Sea change: The seascape in contemporary photography. Tucson, Ariz.: Center for Creative Photography, 1999. ISBN 0938262327

[edit] Source, external links

(Japanese) Nihon shashinka jiten (『日本写真家事典』, 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers). Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN 4-473-01750-8
The Heliography series, an explanation by Yamazaki
Goldberg, Vicki. "Threatened but unruffled, a persistent beauty in sea, sky and sand." New York Times 25 June 1999. A review of "Sea Change: The Seascape in Contemporary Photography" International Center of Photography.
Hiroshi Yamazaki within "Sea Change"
(Japanese) Yamazaki's CV at Musashino Art University
(Japanese) Yamazaki's CV at TPO Photo School