Shomei Tomatsu transformed postwar Japanese photography through images of American military presence, Nagasaki, youth culture and everyday objects. His work resists a single documentary style, shifting between symbolic close-ups and social observation.
Photography
Artist Films
Shomei Tomatsu: The First Decade
San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtOfficial source ↗ (opens in a new window)
Major Works
- 1961Bottle Melted and Deformed by Atomic Bomb Heat
- 1958–69Chewing Gum and Chocolate
- 1961–66Nagasaki 11:02
- 1950s–60sSkin of the Nation
- 1969Protest, Tokyo
- 1960sEros
- 1950sAmericanization
- 1969–72Okinawa
- 1980sPlastics
- 1975The Pencil of the Sun
Interviews & Writing
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