Akihiko Okamura
Akihiko Okamura ( Japanese 岡村 昭 彦 , Okamura Akihiko ; January 1, 1929 , † March 24, 1985 ) was a Japanese press photographer.
Life
Akihiko Okamura's childhood was shaped by the Japanese armed conflicts up to the Second World War . He became known as a photographer in Western countries when Life magazine published a nine-page report on the Viet Cong with photos of Okamura in July 1965 . That year he received an award from the Japanese Photography Society. In the following years he worked as a photo reporter in the Dominican Republic , Hawaii and Tahiti . In 1968 he moved with his family to Northern Ireland to do a photo report on the Northern Ireland conflict and to investigate the Irish roots of the Kennedy clan .
He was a witness of the Biafra War and photographed the progress of the Vietnam War in South Vietnam and Laos in 1971 .
In 2014, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography dedicated a retrospective to him under the title All About Life and Death .
Web links
- Literature by and about Akihiko Okamura in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Tōkyō-to shashin bijutuskan ("Photography Museum of the Tokyo Prefecture", English Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography ): 岡村 昭 彦 の 写真 生 き る こ と と 死 ぬ こ と の す べ て ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , engl. all about life and death
- ↑ a b Kasia Delgado: Akihiko Okamura , in: Financial Times , July 19, 2014, p. 18
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Okamura, Akihiko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 岡村 昭 彦 (Okamura Akihiko) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese photo reporter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1, 1929 |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 24, 1985 |