Tag: Shomei Tomatsu

(329) Japan’s Most Influential Street Photographer EVER // Shomei Tomatsu – YouTube

(329) Japan’s Most Influential Street Photographer EVER // Shomei Tomatsu – YouTube:

November 21, 2024
American Culture, Riding a Mushroom Cloud – NYTimes.com

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 from seeing them. They called them “disreputable.” He found them irresistible.

January 10, 2020
A photography revolution by Japanese collective Vivo – The Eye of Photography

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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 school” with roots dating back to the early 1950s that anticipated and profoundly influenced Japanese photographic style of the 1960s and 1970s.

January 10, 2018