Tōru Kōno

Tōru Kōno (河野 徹, Kōno Tōru, 1907–1984) was a Japanese photographer.[1] He was born on August 29th in Tenoji district in Osaka City, Japan.

Toro Kono
Born1907 August 29
Osaka City, Japan
Died1984 April 19
OccupationPhotographer
OrganizationTampei Photography Club

Democratic Art's Association

Spiegel Photography Association

He graduated the Yao City Public Secondary School in 1927. It was around that time that he started to take landscape and still-life photographs. [1]

In 1929, he joined the Nadaya Camera Club and developed further as a photographer under the tutelage of Morimoto Kiyokata who was a member of the Naniwa Photography Club. [1]

Kono becomes a member of the Tampei Photography Club in 1931 through the introduction of Seiichiro Tokuda. There he is influenced by Nakaji Yasui and Bizan Ueda. [1]

In 1951, Kono participates in the formation of the Democratic Art’s Association with Ei-Q. After 21 years, in 1952 he quits the Tampei Photography Club and leaves the Democratic Art’s Association a year later in 1953. In the same year, he creates a new organization called the Spiegel Photography Association with Shisui Tanahashi and Katsumasa Kimura. He also establishes Kono Studio in Osaka City. He died on April 19, 1984. [1]

His works have been exhibited at the Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka[2] and the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum[3]

References
  1. (in Japanese) Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, editor. 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers (『日本写真家事典』, Nihon shashinka jiten). Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN 4-473-01750-8
  2. "みんなのまち 大阪の肖像 | 大阪中之島美術館". nakka-art.jp (in Japanese). 2021-09-25. Retrieved 2022-04-14.
  3. "東京都写真美術館　電子所蔵品目録". collection.topmuseum.jp. Retrieved 2022-04-14.



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