Hideo Haga
Plates contributed
The 1 plate attributed to Hideo Haga in the 1955 MoMA Master Checklist (Exhibition #569).
| ID | Country | Section | Year | View |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| photo-0035 | Japan | Marriage and childbirth | — | Clervaux |
Notes
One plate in the catalog (count verified by strict-match grep against data/photographs.csv 2026-05-23): photo-0035 (Checklist #38, Section 4 Pregnancy, Japan, “Japanese”, 12 x 8 cm). Credited “Japanese” in the MoMA Master Checklist with no agency or publication intermediary. Born 10 September 1921, Dalian, Manchuria per src-wikipedia-haga-pointer (fetched 2026-05-23; lead verbatim: “Hideo Haga (芳賀 日出男 Haga Hideo, 10 September 1921 – 12 November 2022) was a Japanese photographer, known for his photography of traditional Japanese festivals and folk culture”). Died 12 November 2022 at age 101 — one of the longest-lived FoM contributing photographers. Kanji name: 芳賀 日出男; Japanese reading order family-name-first (Haga Hideo). Birthplace Dalian, Manchuria (now Dalian, Liaoning, China) reflects Japanese colonial-era geography. Education: Keio University, Literature, 1944; attended lectures by folklorist Shinobu Orikuchi. WWII service: recruited for Imperial Japanese Navy aerial photography. Co-founded Japan Professional Photographers Society (1950); chairman 1981-1988. FoM plate described as showing a pregnant Japanese woman; Wikipedia pointer gives title “Pregnant Japanese Woman Hurrying on Her Way” (1952) (src-wikipedia-haga-pointer, verbatim: “selected, for its (then) unusual public perspective on pregnancy, by Edward Steichen for MoMA’s The Family of Man exhibition which was seen by nine million people as it toured thirty-seven countries”). Title not in MoMA Master Checklist (which records plate as Untitled); title carried at pointer-status only. Established Haga Library Co. 1985 (over 300,000 stock photographs). Awards: Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon (Japan, 1989); Order of the Rising Sun, 4th class (1995); Lifetime Achievement Award, Photographic Society of Japan (1997). Over 35 books published on Japanese festivals and folk culture. ICP constituent archive returned HTTP 404 this round. Research file: research/photographers/hideo-haga.md
External biography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideo_Haga
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