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Originally Published in 1962 This is the number 2 of Asahi Sonorama Collection (1st Edition Published by Asahi Sonorama)
Iwamiya was born on January 4, 1920 in Yonago, Tottori, the second son of a married couple who owned a traditional confectionery shop. Iwamiya's uncle owned a commercial photography studio, and this sparked the boy's interest in photography; at school he was a baseball player. After graduating he worked at the Hankyu Department Store in Umeda (Osaka), where he entered the Mitsuwa Photography Club (ミツワ写真クラブ, Mitsuya shashin kurabu), run by Bizan Ueda and Nakaji Yasui. Following success in a photography club competition held by the Asahi Shinbun, Iwamiya was invited to join the Tampei Photography Club and went on to become an assistant to Yasui. He joined the Nankai Hawks in 1939, retired after half a year, and in 1941 was sent to Manchukuo as a photographer.Iwamiya returned to Japan before the end of the war, and after the war opened a developing shop serving an American base in Sannomiya, Kobe. While recovering from tuberculosis in 1954, he photographed a mannequin factory in Osaka; these photographs won the gold medal in the second Fuji Photography Competition, and were exhibited at the Matsushima Gallery (松島ギャラリー, Matsushima gyararī) in Ginza, Tokyo, as Iwamiya's first solo show. He also exhibited in West Germany, and during this time he met Ken Domon, who greatly influenced him. In 1955 he established Iwamiya Fotos (岩宮フォトス, Iwamiya fotosu) for commercial photography. Iwamiya's photographs of Sado Island were exhibited at the Osaka Fuji Photo Salon and elsewhere in 1956; this would later appear as a book.

Two of Iwamiya's apprentices went on to become professional photographers in their own right. Seiryū Inoue joined Iwamiya's studio in 1951 and was encouraged by Iwamiya in his photographic work in Kamagasaki. Daidō Moriyama joined Iwamiya's studio in 1959 and was taken under Inoue's wing until Moriyama's departure from Tokyo in 1961.

From 1962, Iwamiya brought out a considerable number of books, mostly depicting Japanese crafts and architecture; several won prizes. In 1966 he became a professor at the Osaka University of Arts.

Iwamiya died in Osaka on June 26, 1989.

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