Tetsuya Ichimura (一村 哲也, Ichimura Tetsuya, born 1930) is a Japanese photographer noted for his photographs of nudes.[1]

Early life

Ichimura was born, with the family name Hamaguchi,[2] in Nagasaki on 10 June 1930. As a young adult Ichimura moved to Tokyo, where he studied for a year at Nihon University, took various jobs, and chanced to meet Shōtarō Akiyama, who aroused his interest in photography.

Photography career

Ichimura won a special award at the First International Subjectivism Photo Exhibition (国際主観主義写真展, Kokusai Shukanshugi Shashinten), held at Takashimaya in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, in 1956. The exhibition was held in the same year that the newly founded Japan Subjective Photography League was established and brought together prewar avant-garde figures such as Kansuke Yamamoto alongside younger postwar photographers including Ikkō Narahara and Yasuhiro Ishimoto.[3][4][5][6][7] He quickly moved to nude photography, and had his first solo exhibition, "Love & Lost", in Fuji Photo Salon in 1963.

He also participated in exhibitions overseas: "New Japanese Photography" in New York (7 Works owned by MoMA) in 1974 and an exhibition of eight Japanese photographers in Graz in 1976. From the late 1970s Ichimura branched out to photographs of Japanese iconography and landscape, particularly that of his native Nagasaki.

Books by Ichimura

  • Konna sei no hanashi mo aru (). Tokyo: Besutoserāzu, 1970. Text by Daihachi Izumi, photographs by Ichimura.
  • Seidan to nūdo no fūkei (). Tokyo: Besutoserāzu, 1970.
  • Kyōki no utage Salome (Salome). Tokyo: Jitsugyō no Nihon sha, 1970.
  • Come Up. Tokyo: Shashinhyōronsha, 1971.
  • Onna to otoko: Imayō shunga (). Gendai Shashinka Shirīzu. Tokyo: Ado angen, 1972. With Yoshihiro Tatsuki and Tenmei Kanō.
  • Shashin no shisō (). Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppansha, 1978.
  • Nihon no kokoro () / Impressions of Japan. Tokyo: Canon Club, 1978.
  • Onna soshite daraku... (). Tokyo: Besutoserāzu, 1983. ISBN 4-584-17024-X.
  • Nagasaki (). Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1988. ISBN 4-02-255918-7.
  • () / Sakura Blossom. Tokyo: Nippon Camera-sha, 1992.
  • Body: Mega・sexual photo. Tokyo: Hanashi no Tokushū, 1994. ISBN 4-8264-0137-X.
  • Ichimura Tetsuya feromon sakuhinshū: "Shunga" erotic picture do H (："Shunga" erotic picture do H). Tokyo: Wanimagajinsha, 1995. ISBN 4-89829-234-8.
  • Tsuyu: Neo-waisetsu shashinshū (). Tokyo: Hokuō Shobō / Japan Mix, 1997. ISBN 4-88321-342-0.

Other books with photographs by Ichimura

  • (in Japanese) Nihon nūdo meisakushū (日本ヌード名作集, Japanese nudes). Camera Mainichi bessatsu. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1982. Pp. 228–33 show Ichimura's work.
  • Szarkowski, John, and Shōji Yamagishi. New Japanese Photography. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1974. ISBN 0-87070-503-2 (hard), ISBN 0-87070-503-2 (paper). Includes six pages of photographs by Ichimura.

Notes

  1. ^ Martin Marix Evans, ed., 1995 Contemporary Photographers, 3rd ed. (St. James Press).
  2. ^ His name in kanji was or is (Kasahara, "Ichimura Tetsuya"). The likeliest readings of the character are Takashi and Ryū. Kasahara does not explain when or how Hamaguchi became Ichimura.
  3. ^ "主観主義写真（主観的写真）" [Subjectivist Photography (Subjective Photography)] (in Japanese). artscape. Retrieved 2026-03-26.
  4. ^ Stojković, Jelena (2020). Surrealism and Photography in 1930s Japan: The Impossible Avant-Garde. London: Routledge. p. 168. ISBN 9781788314053.
  5. ^ "Ikko Narahara" (PDF) (in Japanese). PGI. Retrieved 2026-03-26.
  6. ^ "石元泰博 略年譜" (in Japanese). Ishimoto Yasuhiro Photo Center. Retrieved 2026-03-26.
  7. ^ "新山清写真展「サブジェクティブ・フォトグラフィー」－ヴィジュアル世界の冒険－" (in Japanese). Digital Camera Watch. Retrieved 2026-03-26.

References

  • (in Japanese) Kasahara Michiko (笠原美智子). Nihon shashinka jiten ( / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN 4-473-01750-8. P. 43.