Hideki Hachisuka - Travel Sketches - 1987

Travel Sketches

Hideki Hachisuka
Japan Photo Planning /1987/Japanese/183*258*13

Travel Sketches - Photo Contest Supplement, Opinion Leader Series - by Japanese photographer Hidenori Hachisuka Born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture in 1943, Hachisuka graduated from Hamamatsu Commercial High School and went to work for Kawai Musical Instruments, a major local musical instrument manufacturer. He was in charge of tuning in the piano department. While working as a salaried employee, he worked as a Sunday photographer and won numerous awards in many camera magazines such as Nippon Camera and Photo Art, etc. At the age of 32, he quit his job and became a freelance photographer, travelling around the country, judging photo contests, teaching amateurs and writing books on techniques, etc. He also writes books on techniques. This book, published as a separate volume of a photo contest magazine, is a collection of Hachisuka's independent photographs, consisting of black-and-white artistic works taken in various parts of Japan. Hachisuka seems to have had a close friendship with Nakayama Yo and others who continued to photograph the coal-mining town of Chikuho, and the beautiful black-and-white illustrations are as captivating as those of Nakayama. The book also contains texts by Hayashi Tadahiko, Akiyama Shotaro, Ohtake Shoji and others under Hachisuka's guidance.