Background
Akihide Tamura (born as Shigeru Tamura (田村 茂)) was born on March 13, 1947, in Tokyo, Japan.
彰英 田村
Akihide Tamura (born as Shigeru Tamura (田村 茂)) was born on March 13, 1947, in Tokyo, Japan.
Akihide Tamura studied at Tokyo College of Photography, graduating first in 1967 and then from a more advanced course two years later.
In 1979 Akihide Tamura became an instructor at Tokyo College of Photography, and he also taught at Tokyo Zokei University (since 1972).
Tamura's first solo exhibition - under the name Shigeru Tamura - was Yume no hikari (Dream light) in Ginza Nikon Salon in 1969. In 1974 his works appeared within the "New Japanese Photography" show in the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Akihide Tamura made the stills for several of the late films of Akira Kurosawa and has published a book of photographs taken on the sets of Kurosawa's films.
Akihide Tamura joined the Japan Professional Photographers Society in 1971.