Tag: Shomei Tomatsu

  • American Culture, Riding a Mushroom Cloud – NYTimes.com

    American Culture, Riding a Mushroom Cloud – NYTimes.com

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    American Culture, Riding a Mushroom Cloud In “Chewing Gum and Chocolate,” Shomei Tomatsu explored the attractions and contradictions of American culture and the military in postwar Japan. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/24/american-culture-riding-a-mushroom-cloud/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog 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…

  • A photography revolution by Japanese collective Vivo – The Eye of Photography

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    [contentcards url=”http://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2018/01/10/article/159977648/a-photography-revolution-by-japanese-collective-vivo/”] A photography revolution by Japanese collective Vivo – The Eye of Photography 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…