Background
Tanaka was born in Ise, Mie (Japan) in 1901.
田中 幸太郎
Tanaka was born in Ise, Mie (Japan) in 1901.
From 1932 onwards he participated in a variety of amateur photography groups. From 1948 he worked in the Osaka office of Asahi Shinbun"s publishing company. From 1955, Tanaka worked to photograph Kawachi in Osaka, in a series titled Kawachi Fūdoki (河内風土記).
In 1962 he started photographing firework displays in color (then still unusual for such purposes), with his camera attached to his moving body.
He died on 7 November 1995.