ブラジルの大地、農の営み、家族を愛した大原治雄
約180点を紹介！
The Earth of Brazil, Farming, Family –
The Photography of Ohara Haruo

「ブラジルの光、家族の風景」は、日系移民として高知県からブラジルへわたり、アマチュア写真家として活動し、ブラジル国内で大変高い評価を得た“知られざる巨匠”大原治雄（おおはら はるお）の日本での大規模な回顧展のため制作した図録です。
日本からブラジルへ、最初の移民船「笠戸丸」が出航したのは、1908年（明治41年）でした。大原はその翌年、1909年、高知県吾川郡三瀬村石見（現・いの町）に生まれました。1927年、17歳で家族らと集団移民としてブラジルに渡り、当初はサンパウロの農園で農業労働者として働きます。その後、未開拓の地、パラナ州ロンドリーナ（リオデジャネイロから約800キロ）に最初の開拓者の一人として入植します。24歳で結婚。

それを機に、大原は、人生の大切な日の記録を残すことのできる写真に興味を持ち、4年後に小型カメラを購入します。初めて撮影したのは《オレンジの木の隣にいる幸（こう）》（幸は大原夫人）でした。以来、農作業の合間に写真を撮るようになります。
独自の研究を重ねて技術を習得し、やがて1951年（41歳）にはサンパウロの有名カメラクラブの会員となり、国内外の写真展に出品するほどとなります。1970年代初頭からは名前も知られ始め、地元の新聞への掲載、個展開催、フォトフェスティバルへの出品など、徐々に高い評価を受けるようになりました。

Haruo Ohara – Fotografias is the offical catalogue to our large-scale retrospective of Ohara Haruo, a critically highly regarded yet publicly still mostly unknown Japanese-Brazilian amateur photographer.
It was 1908 when the Kasato Maru, carrying the first set of 781 contracted workers, set sail to Santos, Brazil. Ohara Haruo was born 1909, the following year, in Misemura (present-day town of Ino) in the district of Agagawa, located in the prefecture Kochi on the south coast of Shikoku. In 1927, at the age of seventeen, he and his family too immigrated to Brazil as part of a larger group of Japanese immigrants. After arriving in Brazil he first worked as farm laborer in São Paulo and later moved to the undeveloped areas of Londrina in the state of Paraná as one of the first to settle there. At the age of 24 he married.

It was his wedding that made him think about ways to record important events in his life and finally led him to buy his first camera a few years later. It does not surprise, thus, that his first photograph depicts his wife Kou, next to an orange tree. From then on Ohara continued photograph when he had time to spare from work at his farm. He studied and mastered photographic technique on his own, gradually spending more and more time with his camera and in 1951 eventually became a member of the Photo Cinema Club Bandeirante, a prestigious photographic association, and began to exhibit works at home and abroad. From the early 1970s on he started attracting attention from local newspapers and subsequently became known to a broader public through articles, individual exhibitions, and participations in photo festivals for which he received considerable critical acclaim.

著：大原治雄
体裁：183 x 258 mm, 176p.
ISBN：978-4096823538
定価：2,900円（税別）
寄稿：今福龍太

企画：コンタクト
装丁：川邊雄
校正：瀬尾裕明
協力：中村茂生、龍藤千恵美、渋谷敦志、和田侑子

印刷製本：株式会社サンエムカラー

発行所：サウダージ・ブックス