Background
Irie was born in Nara.
入江 泰吉
Irie was born in Nara.
He started photography in his teens, influenced by a brother. He began work in a camera store in Osaka in 1925 and in 1931 set up his own company in Osaka, Kōgeisha (光芸社), which did product and advertising photography as well as selling photographic goods. He started taking photographs of bunraku in 1939 and in 1942 had his first solo exhibition (in Osaka), of bunraku puppets.
His house in Osaka was destroyed in a bombing of 1945, and he escaped to his family home in Nara.