Shomei Tomatsu

by Ian Jeffrey

Shomei Tomatsu (b.1930) is one of the most important photographers of postwar Japan. Key themes of his work are conflicts, contrasts and the Americanization of his homeland. He created his own approach to documentary photography - a mix of Symbolism and realism - which has greatly influenced subsequent generations of photographers. Other artists in this series Eugene Atget, Mathew Brady, Wynn Bullock, Julia Margaret Cameron, Joan Fontcuberta, David Goldblatt, Nan Goldin, Graciela Iturbide, Andre Kertesz, Dorothea Lange, Mary Ellen Mark, Joel Meyerowitz, Boris Mikhailov, Lisette Model, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Eadweard Muybridge, Eugene Richards, W. Eugene Smith, Joel-Peter Witkin

Genres: Photography, Art

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 5, 2001

Reviews

[Xian · Rating 3 out of 5]

The pictures are nice but are embalmed in the paragraph-long explanations, excessively specific to the author's own interpretation, whose believability stretches thin as the book goes on. Quite diminishes the experience.

[Flora Wong]

2014/1/9
Redundant explanation.