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Rokkor

Rokkor ロッコール

May 1955 - October 1958.
April 1973 - December 1988.
Monthly
Founding Publisher: Chiyoda Kōgaku Seikō ( Tokyo)
Founding Editor: Tamada Ken’ichirō

Rokkor was a successor to Minolta News ( founded in 1950, monthly.) and was a corporate promotional magazine for the camera manufacturer Minolta.
Tamada Ken’ichirō hired Horiuchi Seiichi as art director, with the intention to provide a fresh editorial approach that went beyond simple company public relations.
Horiuchi Seiichi was, just like Yamagishi Shōji, the celebrated editor of Camera Mainichi, a towering figure in in magazine design.
He worked for weekly magazines, fashion magazines, and corporated promotional publications.
Rokkor published photographs and theoretical essays by younger photographers.

At the end of the 1950s, Rokkor’s editorial office in Ginza was a hangout for photographers such as members of the Vivo collective * as well as photo critics such as Fukushima Tasuo and Shigomori Koēn.
It became a bimonthly in April 1958 and was suspended in October 1958 after 39 issues.
It was revived as a quarterly in April 1973 and became a monthly again in October 1975.

In January 1989 the name was changed to Photo Wave.

* Vivo - the 6 photographers, Narahara Ikkō , Kawada Kikuji, Hosoe Eikoh, Satō Akira, Tanno Akira and Tōmatsu Shōmei, formed Vivo in July 1959 as a self-managed agency for the distribution of their own work. The group set up a cooperative office and darkroom in the Ginza district, Tokyo.
Vivo disbanded two years later in June 1961.

Rokkor 1955 - 6
Rokkor Editorial Office, Tokyo
Editor: Tamada Ken’ichirō
Editorial Design: Horiuchi Seiichi
Process color printing
30 x 20,8 cm
Cover: Haneda Toshio

Selection of content;
Appetite, Kurokawa Seiichi and Uchida Isao, 5 pages b&w / Photography around the world and its artists 2, American photographers by Watanabe Tsutomi, 2 pages b&w / Enjoy the background, Inamura Takamasa, 2 pages b&w / Mechanical enthusiast part; The photographer and Minolta - Honjo Mitsuro, 2 pages b&w / Seasonal photography guide 6 ; Ranch portrait, Nakamura Msasaya, 3 pages b&w / Waseda University, Yamamoto Kinya and Murakami Terunobu, 3 pages b&w / Amateur contest, 2 pages b&w / Rokkor Salon, judging by Nakamura Tatsuyuki, 4 pages b&w / Mechanical classroom 6; Minolta A2, 2 pages b&w

Rokkor 1955 - 6
Rokkor Editorial Office, Tokyo
Editor: Tamada Ken’ichirō
Editorial Design: Horiuchi Seiichi
Process color printing
30 x 20,8 cm
Cover: Haneda Toshio

Appetite, photographs by Kurokawa Seiichi and Uchida Isao

Ranch portrait, photography by Nakamura Msasaya, model; Yamada Kiyoe

Appetite, photographs by Kurokawa Seiichi and Uchida Isao

Ranch portrait, photography by Nakamura Msasaya, model; Yamada Kiyoe

Rokkor 1977 - 10 no. 35
Editor: Tamada Kenichiro, Sakurai Asao, Nishitani Yoichi
Cover: Shinoyama Kishin
26 x 24 cm
Published by Rokkor Club, Minolta Camera Co, Tokyo
Layout: Shintani Masahiro
Left hand opening.

Selection of content:
Pin-up girl, Shinoyama Kishin, 8 pages color / New products 1; Minolta XD, 6 pages b&w / New products 2; Minolta XG-E, 2 pages b&w / Photo collection 108 Japanese painters, Hayashi Tadahiko, 8 pages color / The appearence of a writer, 159 writers portraits, Akiyama Shotaro, 5 pages b&w / Award winning work photo contest, 7 pages b&w / Happy journey, Yoshida Daitomo, 7 pages color / Rokkor 1977 regional contest, judged by Shinoyama Kishin, Watanabe Tsutomu and Tachiki Yoshihiro, 13 pages in color and b&w / Kuwabara Koshio;New photo discussion, episode 4, 4 pages / Winning works photo contest, 12 pages b&w / Sleep Sea, Sleep Love, Ishiguro Kenji, 2 pages blue tone mono color /

On the cover typecal 1970s model photography by Shinoyama Kishin.

Since 1971, Hayashi Tadahiko, has spent more then 5 years photographing modern Japanese painters.
The work is now compiled in a photobook; '108 Japanese painters '

On the right: Also starting in 1971, Akiyama Shotaro photographed for a five year period contemporary Japanese writers. This will also be published in a book: '159 writers portraits'

Since 1971, Hayashi Tadahiko, has spent more then 5 years photographing modern Japanese painters.
The work is now compiled in a photobook; '108 Japanese painters '

On the right: Also starting in 1971, Akiyama Shotaro photographed for a five year period contemporary Japanese writers. This will also be published in a book: '159 writers portraits'