Tadao Tominari

Tadao Tominari (冨成 忠夫, Tominari Tadao, 1919–1992) was a Japanese nature photographer.

Life and career

Tominari was born on August 17, 1919 in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture. Graduating in 1942 from Tōkyō Bijutsu Gakkō (東京美術学校, now Tokyo University of the Arts), by the 1960s he had begun to specialize in plant photography. He also painted.[1]

In 1975 Tominari established a photography company in Sendagaya, Tokyo. For the following three years he photographed for an encyclopedia, published by Asahi Shinbun-sha, of the plants of the world: Asahi hyakka: Sekai no shokubutsu. He contributed to fifty photographically illustrated guides to plants and similar works.[1] He was awarded the 1990 Japan Picture Book Awards Grand Prize for his photo collection Fuyume Gasshodan (ふゆめがっしょうだん). He died at the age of 73 on September 25, 1992, in Tokyo.[2][3]

Collections

Seventeen of Tominari's photographs are in the collection of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.[4]

Books with photography by Tominari

References

  1. 1 2 Kazuko Sekiji (関次和子), "Tominari Tadao", in Nihon shashinka jiten (日本写真家事典) / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers (Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000; ISBN 4-473-01750-8), p.223. (in Japanese)
  2. ↑ J-Lit Center profile of Tominari
  3. ↑ Entry on Tominari in the Nihon Jinmei Daijiten
  4. ↑ Search results, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. Accessed March 11, 2013.
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