Background information, content
"From his roughly 15 publications to date – which include the only important Western publication, the catalogue of his 2006 exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Art – roughly 110 photographs were selected for this book, 'Shomei Tomatsu. Photographs 1951-2000'. We're missing just a very few photos from the early years of the American occupation of Okinawa and three motifs for which the negatives can no longer be found This final selection not only clearly illustrates why Shomei TOMATSU is seen as a 'godfather' by nearly all living Japanese photographers – including the stars of the scene (...) such as Nobuyoshi ARAKI or Daido MORIYAMA – and why colleagues in his native country all regard him with such respect." (free translated text, © Roland Angst)
About Japanese photographer Shomei TOMATSU (1930-2012)
Photo books by and on the work of Shomei TOMATSU
- Photographer(s)
- Shomei TOMATSU
- Book design
- Roland ANGST
- Format
- HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25 x 32,5 x 2 cm., 127 pp., 70 ills.
- Language(s)
- bilingual texts: English / Japanese
- Year of Release
- 2012
- Publisher
- Only Photography, Berlin
- Print run details
- Ltd. to 500 numbered copies