Hiroshi Yamazaki

Birth : 1946-09-21, Nagano, Nagano Prefecture, Japan

Death : 2017-06-05

History

Hiroshi Yamazaki (Japanese: 山崎 博, Hepburn: Yamazaki Hiroshi, 21 September 1946 – 5 June 2017) was a Japanese photographer whose works concentrate on the sun and the sea. Born in Nagano on 21 September 1946, Yamazaki studied at Nihon University but dropped out in 1968, starting out as a freelance cameraman a year later, working in both still photography and 16mm film. Yamazaki is best known for two series. "Heliography" uses long exposures to show the path of the sun near the horizon. "Horizon" (Suiheisen saishū) is a study of sea horizons. Yamazaki became a full professor at Tohoku University of Art and Design in 1993, and also taught at Musashino Art University and TPO Photo School and won the 26th Ina Nobuo Award in 2001. He died on 5 June 2017 of cancer of the gums.

Movies

Winds
Director
16mm to digital, 6'00
3・・・
Director
16mm, 5'00
Walking Works
Director
16mm, 5'00
Geography
Director
16mm to digital, 7'00
Motion
Director
Hiroshi Yamazaki, 16mm, 10'00
Heliography
Director
An experimental short through which Yamazaki brings his preoccupations and inquiries about time and light from conceptual photography into moving images.
Epilogue
Director
16mm, b&w, silent, 1'00
Atman
Director of Photography
ĀTMAN is a visual tour-de-force based on the idea of the subject at the centre of the circle created by camera positions (480 such positions). Shooting frame-by-frame the filmmaker set up an increasingly rapid circular motion. ĀTMAN is an early Buddhist deity often connected with destruction; the Japanese aspect is stressed by the devil mask of Hangan, from the Noh, and by using both Noh music and the general principle of acceleration often associated with Noh drama.
Observation
Director
A scene of a street corner transformed through the use of a single gradual filter change and a superimposed shot of the position of the midday sun on 27 consecutive days.
Vision Take 1
Director
'Vision Take 1' combines the use of Super 8 and video formats to play with the image of the sea.
60
Director
Hiroshi Yamazaki, 16mm, 1'00
A Story
Director
16mm to digital, 6'00
Fixed Star
Director
16mm, b&w, 7'00
Fix-Night
Director
16mm, b&w, 6'00
Fix
Director
16mm, b&w, silent, 5'00