Yukata Takanishi (Feb 6, 1935, Shinjuku, Tokyo).

• •first camera:Canon IVSb 35 mm rangefinder.
• •first exhibition: work from his series “Somethin’ Else”, in Ginza Garō, May 1960
• •commercial photographer, Nippon Design Center, 1961-70
• •member of the collective that produced Provoke magazine, 1968-69

Books:

• Toshi e (都市へ, “Towards the city”). And Tōkyōjin nōto (東京人ノート). Izara Shobō, 1974.
• Machi (町, “Town”). Tokyo: Asahi Shinbun, 1977. (Japanese)
• Jinzō (人像). Shin’ya Soshosha, 1979.
• Shin Oku no hosomichi (新おくのほそ道) / The New “Oku no Hosomichi” Revisited. Nihon no Kokoro. Tokyo: Shūeisha, 1982. (Japanese)
• Tōkyōjin 1978-1983 (東京人 1978〜1983). Tokyo: Shoshi Yamada, 1983. (Japanese)
• Takakura Ken shashinshū Eizō 25 (高倉健写真集 映像25) 1983. (Japanese)
• Miyako no kao (都の貌) / Visages of a Metropolis. Tokyo: IPC, 1989.
• Menbō yakujo: Jinbutsu shashin kuronikuru (面目躍如人 物写真クロニクル　1964～1989). Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1990. (Japanese)
• Hatsukuni (初國) / Pre-Landscape. Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1993.(Japanese)
• Chimeiron (地名論) / Genius Loci, Tokyo. Tokyo: Mainichi Communications, 2000.
• Raika no me (ライカな眼). Tokyo: Mainichi Communications, 2002. (Japanese)
• Nosutarujia (ノスタルジア) / Nostalghia. And Windscape. Tokyo: Heibonsha, 2004.
• Kakoi machi (囲市) / Kakoi-machi. Tokyo: Creo, 2007.(Japanese) Color photographs of Tokyo and its environs.
• Photography 1965–1974. Berlin: Only Photography, 2010. 
• Yutaka Takanashi: Toshi-e. Books on Books 6. Errata Editions, 2010.