Dimensions: 280 x 240 mm
Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 978-84-17047-53-5
The photography of Shōmei Tōmatsu (1930-2012) offers an acute and subtle gaze on more than six decades of Japan’s life and history.
Working in both black and white and colour, over the course of his career Tōmatsu built up a vast corpus of images in which he expressed an aesthetic imbued with both a realist element but one also characterised on occasions by visual innovations and experiments.
This book include photographs loaned from different Japanese institutions and private collections, offering a chronological and thematic survey of an intense creative career and one that is required knowledge for an understanding of the social transformations of a country that has played a key role in conflicts in the region of Asia as well as in a global context since the second half of the 20th century.
first edition
stock number:NB534
