Tōru Kōno
Toro Kono | |
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| Born | 1907 August 29 Osaka City, Japan |
| Died | 1984 April 19 |
| Occupation | Photographer |
| Organization | Tampei Photography Club
Democratic Artists Association Spiegel Photography Association |
Tōru Kōno (河野 徹, Kōno Tōru; 1907–1984) was a Japanese photographer. He was born on August 29 in Tenoji district in Osaka City, Japan.
He graduated the Yao City Public Secondary School in 1927. It was around that time that he started to take landscape and still-life photographs.
In 1929, he joined the Nadaya Camera Club and developed further as a photographer under the tutelage of Morimoto Kiyokata who was a member of the Naniwa Photography Club.