ture, 1952 until his death. Awarded Prize of the Year of
the Japan Photographic Society, 1958. Contributing
photographer for Magnum Photos from 1960. Hassel-
blad Foundation International Award in Photography
and Honorary Member, Royal Photographic Society of
England, 1997. Died 1999.Individual Exhibitions
1946 Document of the Heavy Snowfall in Takada City; Izu-
moya Department Store, Takada, Japan
1947 Seven Artists in Echigo; Daishi Bank Hali, Takada,
Niigata Prefecture, Japan
1957 The Red China I Saw; Takashimaya Department
Store, Tokyo
1959 Ook Dit is Japan; Leiden Museum, Leiden, Nether-
lands
1960 The Document of Grief and Anger; Matsuya Gallery,
Tokyo, Japan
1969 Hamaya’s Japan; Asia House, New York, New York
1970 Nature in Japan, Photokina ‘70; Cologne, Germany
1981 Hiroshi Hamaya: 50 Years of Photography; Takashi-
maya Department Store, Wako Hall and Fuji Photo
Salon, Tokyo, Japan
1982 Form of the Earth; Takashimaya Department Store,
Tokyo, Japan
1986 Hiroshi Hamaya: Fifty Years of Photography; Interna-
tional Center of Photography, New York, New York
1989 Hamaya Hiroshi; Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki,
Japan
1997 Hamaya Hiroshi, Sixty-Six Years of Photography;
Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibitions
1955 The Family of Man; Museum of Modern Art, New
York, New York
1959 Biennale Internationale di Fotographia; Venice, Italy
1960 The World as Seen by Magnum; Takashimaya Depart-
ment Store, Tokyo, Japan
1965 12 Photographers; Museum of Modern Art, New York
1972 The Concerned Photographer; Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C.
1979 Japanese Photography Today and its Origin; Gallery of
Modern Art, Bologna, Italy
Japan: A Self-Portrait; International Center of Photogra-
phy, New York, New York
1980 The Imaginery Photo Museum; Kunsthalle, Cologne,
Germany
1984 Sammlung Gruber; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Ger-
many
1986 Beaute ́s du Japon: Coutumes populaires, folklore et
modes de vie; Mairie du 9e`me arrondissement, Paris,
France.
1989 Europalia 89, Japan-Belgium; Museum of Photogra-
phy, Charleroi, Belgium
2003 Japon: un renouveau photographique;Ho ˆ tel de Sully,
Paris, FranceSelected Works
Yuki Guni (Snow Country), 1956
Urah Nihon (Back Regions of Japan), 1957
The Red China I Saw, 1958
Children in Japan, 1959
Okori to Kanashimi no Kiroku (Record of Anger and Sad-
ness), 1960
Landscape of Japan, 1964
The Mount Fuji: A Lone Peak, 1978
Summer Shots: Antarctic Peninsula, 1979
Aspects of Nature and Aspects of Life, 1981
Women in the Showa Era, 1985Further Reading
Gruber, Renate, and L. Fritz Gruber.The Imaginary Photo
Museum. New York: Harmony Books, 1981.
Tada Tuguo,I grandi fotografi: Hiroshi Hamaya, no. 14,
Milan: Fabri, 1982.
Ryuichi, Kaneko, and Iizawa Kohtaro.Twelve Photogra-
phers in Japan 1945–1955. Yamaguchi, Japan: Yamagu-
chi Prefectural Museum, 1990.
Kineo, Kuwabara, Hiraki Osamu, and Mitsuhashi Sumiyo.
Century of Photography: Hiroshi Hamaya: Sixty-six
Years of Photography, 1931–1990. Tokyo: Metropolitan
Museum of Photography, 1997.HANS HAMMARSKIO
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LD
Swedish
Hans Hammarskio ̈ld, along with his contempor-
aries in the 1940s and 1950s, contributed to signifi-
cant changes in Swedish photography, bringing it
from styles that relied on conventions of the past to
more contemporary photographic expressions. His
body of work includes a rich representation of
nature as well as cityscapes, fashion, and industrial
photographs that feature distinctive lighting with a
rich contrasts of tones.
Born in 1925 in Stockholm, Hans Hammars-
kio ̈ld is largely self-taught in photography. While
studying at secondary school, Ostra Real, fromHAMAYA, HIROSHI