Ryukichi Shibuya

Untitled (Advertising photograph, two women on street)

c.1936

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In Tate Britain

Prints and Drawings Room

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Artist
Ryukichi Shibuya 1904–1995
Medium
Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper
Dimensions
Image: 298 x 247
support: 298 x 250
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Presented by Jacqui Brantjes and Daniel Pittack 2010
Reference
P13152

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Shibuya was a leading advertising photographer in Japan. In 1936 he won first prize in the Asahi Advertising Contest for his photographic storyboard for an advertisement for Crème de lait, a women’s hand cream. Shibuya exhibited widely throughout the 1930s and 1940s, and in 1952 formed the Japan Commercial Photographers Association. The photographs on this wall were part of a hand-printed studio portfolio, assembled and bound by Shibuya to showcase his work.

Gallery label, June 2011

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