Ōri Umesaka

Ōri Umesaka (梅阪 鶯里, Umesaka Ōri, 1900–1965) was a Japanese photographer.[1] He was considered a major figure of mid-century Japanese photography.[2]

Career

Umesaka joined the Naniwa Photography Club in 1920.[3] He first publicly exhibited his work in November 1922.[4] In November 1926, he won first prize in the first Japan Photography Grand Salon.[4] He was a founding member of Ginreisha, a photography group that focused on innovative techniques.[4][5] Formed in 1927, the group first exhibited in 1928, but became defunct around 1930.[6]

Style

Umesaka's 1924 photograph Smoking City was considered unusual for Japanese photography at the time, as it depicted an urban-industrial landscape.[7] Urban themes became common in Japanese photography in later years.[8] He often worked in gum bichromate, such as in Smoking City and Bamboo Forest.[9]

References
  1. (in Japanese) Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, editor. 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers (『日本写真家事典』, Nihon shashinka jiten). Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN 4-473-01750-8
  2. Tucker, Anne; Friis-Hansen, Dana; Iizawa, Kōtarō; Ryuichi, Kaneko; Kinoshita, Naoyuki; Joe, Takeba (2003). The History of Japanese Photography. Yale University Press. p. 108. ISBN 0300099258.
  3. Tucker et al. 2003, p. 318.
  4. Tucker et al. 2003, p. 319.
  5. Susette, Min (Fall 2014). "Speculative Frameworks: Approaching the Interwar Years Work of Shinsaku Izumi and Nakaji Yasui". The Trans-Asia Photography Review. 5 (1). ISSN 2158-2025.
  6. Tucker et al. 2003, pp. 319 & 374.
  7. Tucker et al. 2003, p. 8.
  8. Stahl, David C.; Williams, Mark (2010). Imag(in)ing the War in Japan: Representing and Responding to Trauma in Postwar Literature and Film. BRILL. ISBN 978-9004182981.
  9. Tucker et al. 2003, pp. 109 & 126.


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