Koji Morooka - Summer Photography - 1938

Summer Photography

Koji Morooka
ARS/1938/Japanese/215mm×195mm

Photographer Hirotsugu Morooka (1914-1991) of Japan's collection Summer Photography. Born in Shiba, Tokyo, he became an assistant at the research institute of Hachiro Suzuki, a renowned photographer, photo editor, and researcher, in 1935. The following year, 1936, he joined the publishing house Ars. There, he edited camera magazines like Camera Club and Photo Culture. During the war, he served as an editor for the East Asia Pictorial. After the war, while engaged in writing about photography and publishing technical manuals and guides, he also worked as a freelance photographer. His 1972 publication Memories of Tokyo, compiling postwar Tokyo's urban landscapes, customs, and culture, won the Japan Photographic Society Annual Award. He continued to produce works set in locations like Ginza and Musashino thereafter.
As the title “Summer Photography” suggests, this book focuses on the characteristics of compact cameras and provides the technical explanations necessary for photography. It also serves as a collection titled “SUMMER PHOTOGRAPHY” (the book's English subtitle), compiling photographs Hirotsugu Morooka had accumulated up to that point, all centered around the theme of “summer.” (Included in The Japanese Photobook 1912–1990)