Vivo was a Japanese photographer’s collective founded by Shomei Tomatsu, Eikoh Hosoe, Ikko Narahara, Kikuji Kawada, Akira Sato and Akira Tanno. Although Vivo was active only from 1959 until 1961, it culminated a movement in postwar Japanese photography called “the image school” with roots dating back to the early 1950s that anticipated and profoundly influenced Japanese photographic style of the 1960s and 1970s.
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American Culture, Riding a Mushroom Cloud – NYTimes.com
The photographer Shomei Tomatsu was drawn to ninja and samurai movies as a child in post-World War II Japan, even though teachers forbade students from seeing them. They called them “disreputable.” He found them irresistible.