Masao Horino (?? ??, Horino Masao, 1907-2000) was one of the most prominent Japanese photographers in the first half of the 20th century in Japan.
He was born in Tokyo and graduated from Tokyo Higher Technical School (????????), now Tokyo Institute of Technology (??????).
He was a member of Shink? Shashin Kenkyukai (???????, , New Photography Research Society) which was founded by Sen'ichi Kimura (????) in 1930.
In 1932, Horino published a monograph Camera, Eye x Iron, Construction (?????×????) which is one of the most important works for Japanese modern photography (Shink? Shashin, ????). This monograph consists of photographs of ships and architectures made of steel, such as bridges, tanks and towers, based on his own sense of beauty, "a beauty of machinery" (????), derived directly from the theories of the art critic (photo critic) Takaho Itagaki (????), using, for example, close-up and looking-up. Therefore, this work can be regarded as a collaboration between Horino and Itagaki. This work is as important as the monograph Métal by Germaine Krull in terms of the beauty of machinery.
Further, Horino published his work of documentary photography using montage technique in some magazines, such as the Character of Great Tokyo (Dai Tokyo no Seikaku, ??????. 1931, editing and design by Takaho Itagaki, Ch??k?ron October issue) and Flowing through the City - Sumida River Album (Shutokanry? - Sumida-gawa no Arubamu, ????-????????, 1931, editing and design by Tomoyoshi Murayama, Hanzai Kagaku December issue). No other photographer made such high-level documentary photographs before World War II.
Horino was one very important example of the earliest photographers to have a professional mind, like Y?nosuke Natori, although in Japan before World War II, most photographers were amateurs and took pictures only for their own inside world, not for the outside world.
In Europe and America the effects of the atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not fully understood. The photos produced by Masao Horino contributed to the world wide cry for the bombs to never be used again.
After World War II, he founded the company Minicum manufacturing electronic flashguns for cameras and was absorbed in managing his own company rather than taking photographs.
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References
- Kaneko Ry?ichi. Modern Photography in Japan 1915-1940. San Francisco: Friends of Photography, 2001. ISBN 0-933286-74-0
- Tucker, Anne Wilkes, et al. The History of Japanese Photography. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-300-09925-8
- Camera, Me x Tetsu, Kosei (Camera, Eye x Iron, Construction (?????×????)), Mokuseishashoin, 1932. Facsimile edition: Tokyo: Kokushokank?kai, 2005. ISBN 4-336-04486-4 The facsimile edition comes with short commentaries in both Japanese and English.
- (in Japanese) Iizawa K?tar?. Eyes for Cities, Japanese Photography in 1920s and 1930s (Toshi no Shisen, Nihon no Shashin 1920-30 nendai ????? ?????1920-30??). Tokyo: S?gensha (???), 1989 (ISBN 4-422-70054-5). Revised edition by Heibonsha (???), 2005 (ISBN 4-582-76555-6)
- (in Japanese) Recollection of Japanese colonists settled in Manchuria and Mongolia, 50 years ago (Manmokaitakudan no Kaiso, Sono Shuhen 50 nenmae no Kiseki, ???????? ????50?????), Masao Horino, published by Horino Yoko Kinen Shin'yo-kai Jimukyoku (????????????), 1993.
- (in Japanese) Exhibition Catalogue for "Rhapsody of Modern Tokyo" (Modern Tokyo Kyoshi-kyoku ????????(?????)?), Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (????????), 1993. (You can see all pages of "Character of Great Tokyo" and "Flowing through the City - Sumida River Album" in this catalogue, though the reproductions are small.)
- (in Japanese) Exhibition Catalogue for The Founding and Development of Modern Photography in Japan (?????????????), Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (????????), 1995. (You can see all pages of Camera, Me x Tetsu, Kosei in this catalogue, though the reproductions are small.)
- (in Japanese) Horino Masao (??????, Masao Horino). Nihon no shashinka (??????, , "Japanese Photographers"), vol. 9. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten (????), 1997. ISBN 4-00-008352-X
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