Background
Sakae Tamura was born on September 17, 1906 Otsu City, Mie Prefecture, Japan.
Tamura's photograph Shiroi hana ("White flower") appearing on the cover of the large catalogue of the exhibition "The Founding and Development of Modern Photography in Japan", held by the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in 1995.
榮 田村
Sakae Tamura was born on September 17, 1906 Otsu City, Mie Prefecture, Japan.
Tamura graduated from the Tokyo College (now Tokyo Polytechnic University) of Photography in 1927.
He entered Oriental (Orientaru Shashin Kōgyō) in 1928 and became editor of Photo Times. He was an active contributor to the magazine Geijutsu Shashin Kenkyū and in the group Nihon Kōga Kyōkai (日本光画協会), created in 1928 and related to Nihon Kōga Geijutsu Kyōkai (日本光画芸術協会). He was a leading figure in the New Photography Research Society (新興写真研究会, Shinkō Shashin Kenkyūkai), formed in 1930. Tamura's work was influenced both by pictorialism and by New Photography.