TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rubinfien,Leo
AU  - Tōmatsu,Shōmei
AU  - Phillips,Sandra S.
AU  - Dower,John W.
ED  - Japan Society (New York, N.Y.)
ED  - Corcoran Gallery of Art.
ED  - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
TI  - Shomei Tomatsu: skin of the nation 
SN  - 0300106041
AV  - TR647 .T646 2004
U1  - 779.092 22
PY  - 2004///]
CY  - San Francisco, Calif.
PB  - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in association with Yale University Press, New Haven
KW  - Tōmatsu, Shōmei,
KW  - Photography, Artistic
KW  - Exhibitions
N1  - Catalog of the exhibition held Sept. 22, 2004-Jan. 2, 2005 at the Japan Society, New York, May 21-Aug. 29, 2005 at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and Feb.-May, 2006 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-216); Director's foreword; Neal Benezra --; Preface; Daido Moriyama --; Shomei Tomatsu : the skin of the nation; Leo Rubinfien --; Currents in photography in postwar Japan; Sandra S. Phillips --; Contested ground : Shomei Tomatsu and the search for identity in postwar Japan; John W. Dower --; Plates
N2  - "Born in 1930 in Nagoya, Japan, Shomei Tomatsu came of age during the devastation of World War II. As a teenager he defied air-raid sirens to watch B-29 bombers roaring overhead; in 1950, as a university student, he began to take his first photographs. Drawing deliberately on the legacy of Surrealism and the Western documentary tradition, the self-taught photographer quickly emerged as one of his generation's most sensitive observers of postwar Japan." "... this catalogue - the first comprehensive publication on Tomatsu to appear in English - includes essays addressing his fifty-year career, his artistic influences, and his historical context. A selection of excerpts from Tomatsu's own writings, many of which have never appeared in English, offers an intimate encounter with the issues and themes addressed in his photographs."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -