Takashi Okamura, is a Japanese photographer who has specialized in the photography of art. Okamura was born on 13 December 1927 in Kichijōji, Tokyo. He studied architecture at Nihon University from 1948. Okamura was a keen and proficient skier, and a photographer of skiing. In 1960 he became a professional photographer, also writing about photography and skiing. Okamura moved to Rome in 1965 and since that time has specialized in photographing buildings, frescos, and works of art, frequently contributing the photographs to lavishly produced books.
Sukī o hajimeru hito no tame ni. Fujisawa: Ikeda Shoten, 1962.
Kamera o hajimeru hito no tame ni. Fujisawa: Ikeda Shoten, 1962. Cowritten with Fumio Iijima.
Kamera shiki no torikata. Fujisawa: Ikeda Shoten, 1963.
Karuizawa to Asamayama. Blue Guidebooks. Tokyo: Jitsugyō-no-Nihon-sha, 1967. Cowritten with Masao Izumi.
Rōma no funsui. Tokyo: Kajima Shuppankai, 1975. Edited by Ume Kajima.
Jutai kokuchi. Tokyo: Kajima Shuppankai, 1977.. Edited by Shūji Takashina.
Mikeranjero no Vatikan hekiga: Okamura Takashi Shashinten / The Vatican Frescoes of Michelangelo. Catalogue of an exhibition held August-September 1980 in the Seibu gallery, Ikebukuro. Despite the English alternative title, all in Japanese.
The Vatican Frescoes of Michelangelo. 2 vols. Abbeville, 1980.. Edition of 400. Text by André Chastel.
Mikeranjero Vatikan hekiga / Michelangelo's Frescoes in the Vatican. 2 vols. Tokyo: Kōdansha, 1985-6. Vol. 1, ; vol. 2,. Text by Yoshiyuki Morita. Captions in both Japanese and English.
The Art of Florence. 2 vols. New York: Abbeville, 1988.. 2 vols. Artabras, 1994.. 1 vol. Artabras, 1999.. Text by Glenn M. Andres, John M. Hunisak, and A. Richard Turner. Also in a French edition.
* Firentse no bijutsu. 2 vols. Tokyo: NHK, 1991..
Pittura etrusca al Museo di Villa Giulia. Studi di archeologia, 6. Rome: De Luca, 1989... Text by Maria Antonietta Rizzo.
La Cappella Sistina. 3 vols. Milano : Rizzoli, 1989-.. 44 cm tall. Introduction by Frederick Hartt, commentary by Gianluigi Colalucci. 1. La preistoria della Bibbia 1989. 2. Antenati di Cristo. 1989.. 3. Storia della creazione. 1990..
La Cappella Sistina. Vol. 4, Il guidizio universale. Text by Pierluigi De Vecchi, Gianluigi Colalucci. Translation of New light on Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel. Milano: Rizzoli, c1995.
* Mikeranjero Shisutīna reihaidō: Saigo no shinban / Michelangelo/la Cappella Sistina. Tokyo: Nippon Television Network Corp, 1996..
The Sistine Chapel. 2 vols. New York: Knopf, 1991.. Barrie and Jenkins, 1991.. 44 cm. Text by Frederick Hartt, Fabrizio Mancinelli and Gianluigi Colalucci. Translation of La Cappella Sistina.
