TOMATSU, Shomei - Chewing Gum and Chocolate - GERMAN EDITION IN ORIGINAL SHRINK WRAP!

Background information

"Shomei TOMATSU, one of Japan’s foremost twentieth-century photographers created one of the defining portraits of postwar Japan. Beginning with his meditation on the devastation caused by the atomic bomb in Nagasaki, Tomatsu continued to focus on the tensions between traditional Japanese culture and the growing Westernization of the nation. Beginning in the late 1950s, Shomei TOMATSU depicted the seismic impact of the American victory and occupation. He originally named this series Occupation, but later retitled it 'Chewing Gum and Chocolate' to reflect the handouts given to Japanese kids by the soldiers – sugary and addictive, but ultimately lacking in nutritional value. And although many of his most iconic images are from this series, this work has never before been gathered together in a single volume." (publisher's note, © Kehrer Verlag, 2014)

Content

This German-language monograph, 'Chewing Gum and Chocolate', about the work of the prominent Japanese post-war photographer Shomei TOMATSU provides a good overview of the work of one of the most important Japanese photographers of the 20th century.

About Japanese photographer, Shomei TOMATSU (1930-2012)

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