Shigeichi Nagano

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Shigeichi Nagano (長野 重一 Nagano Shigeichi?, born 1925) is a Japanese photographer.

Born on 30 March 1925 in Ōita City, Nagano studied economics at Keio University (Tokyo). On graduating, he joined a trading company, but soon resigned. He was recruited by Natori Yōnosuke for Weekly Sun News (週刊サンニュース Shūkan San Nyūsu?); and in 1949 moved to Iwanami Shoten where, again under Natori, he did the photography for about fifty of the slim volumes in Iwanami Shashin Bunko. In 1954 he went freelance, concentrating on magazine work.

During the 1960s Nagano observed the period of intense economic growth in Japan, depicting the lives of Tokyo's sarariman with some humor. The photographs of this period were only published in book form much later, as Dorīmu eiji and 1960 (1978 and 1990 respectively).

In 1964 Nagano worked on the cinemaphotography for Ichikawa Kon's film Tokyo Olympiad, and he then moved to work in film and television, particularly television commercials.

Nagano exhibited recent examples of his street photography in 1986, winning the Ina Nobuo Award. He has brought out several books of his works since then, and won a number of awards for them. Nagano had a major retrospective at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in 2000.

[edit] Books of Nagano's works

  • (Japanese) Iwanami Shashin Bunko (岩波写真文庫). Tokyo: Iwanami. Nagano is reputed to have done the photography for 50 or 60 of this large set. They include:
    • Kamakura (鎌倉). 1950. Reprint: Tokyo: Iwanami, 1988. ISBN 4-00-003549-5. The reprint names Nagano as photographer.
    • Nagasaki (長崎). 1951.
    • Hiroshima (広島). 1952.
  • Kogai satsuei jōtatsu 50 no hiketsu (戸外撮影上達50の秘訣). Tokyo: Genkōsha, 1954.
  • Dokyumentarī shashin (ドキュメンタリ-写真). Gendai Kamera Shinsho 30. Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama, 1977.
  • Dorīmu eiji (ドリ-ムエイジ) / Japan's Dream Age. Sonorama Shashin Sensho 10. Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama, 1978. A new edition of Nagano's photographs of urban Japan in the period of high growth.
  • Yoru no byōin (よるのびょういん). Tokyo: Fukuinkan, 1985. ISBN 4-8340-0134-2. Nagano provides the photographs for this children's book, whose text is by Tanikawa Shuntarō.
  • Inka teikoku no zanshō: Shinbi to roman to sono matsuei (インカ帝国の残照：神秘とロマンとその末裔). Tokyo: IBC, 1988. ISBN 4-87198-787-6.
  • Tōi shisen: 1980–1989 Tokyo (遠い視線：1980–1989 Tokyo). Tokyo: IBC, 1989. ISBN 4-87198-800-7.
  • 1960: Nagano Shigeichi shashinshū (1960：長野重一写真集). Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1990. ISBN 4-582-27722-5.
  • Shashin kikō taiheiki (写真紀行太平記). Tokyo: IBC, 1991. ISBN 4-87198-834-1.
  • Tōkyō kōjitsu (東京好日). Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1995. ISBN 4-582-27732-2.
  • Jidai no kioku 1945–1995: Nagano Shigeichi shashinshū (時代の記憶1945–1995: 長野重一写真集). Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1995. ISBN 4-02-258611-7.
  • (Japanese) Nagano Shigeichi (長野重一). Nihon no Shashinka. Tokyo: Iwanami, 1999. ISBN 4-00-008368-6. A survey of Nagano's work.
  • Kono kuni no kioku: Nagano Shigeichi, shashin no shigoto (この国の記憶：長野重一・写真の仕事) / A Chronicle of Japan: Nagano Shigeichi: A Life in Photography. Tokyo: Nihon Shashin Kikaku, 2000. ISBN 4-930887-28-3. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 2000. Captions are in English as well as Japanese; other text is in Japanese only.
  • Tōi shisen (遠い視線) / Distant Gaze. Tokyo: Wides, 2001. ISBN 4-89830-091-X.
  • Nagano Shigeichi (長野重一). Hysteric 14. Tokyo: Hysteric Glamour, 2005. Photographs 1949–59, 2001–2004. Captions in Japanese and English.
  • (Japanese) Tōkyō 1950 nendai (東京1950年代, Tokyo in the 1950s). Tokyo: Iwanami, 2007. ISBN 978-4-00-024162-5. Photographs of the streets of Tokyo. With an essay by Saburō Kawamoto.

[edit] Works with contributions by Nagano

  • Hiraki, Osamu, and Keiichi Takeuchi. Japan, a Self-Portrait: Photographs 1945–1964. Paris: Flammarion, 2004. ISBN 2-08-030463-1.
  • Nihon shashin no tenkan: 1960 nendai no hyōgen (日本写真の転換：1960時代の表現) / Innovation in Japanese Photography in the 1960s. Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1991. Exhibition catalogue, text in Japanese and English. Pp.90–97 show photographs from the series "Dream Age".
  • 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. Captions and texts in both Japanese and English.
  • Tōkyō: Toshi no shisen (東京：都市の視線) / Tokyo: A city perspective. Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1990. Captions and text in Japanese and English.

[edit] References

  • (Japanese) Nihon shashinka jiten (日本写真家事典) / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN 4-473-01750-8.
  • Orto, Luisa. "Nagano Shigeichi." In Anne Wilkes Tucker, et al., The History of Japanese Photography. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-300-09925-8.

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