The Japanese photographer Shomei Tomatsu died last December 14th at the age of 82. 

Until very recently, the Berlin publisher Roland Angst worked with the photographer to produce his latest book, Shomei Tomatsu. Photographs 1951-2000, which was presented for the first time at Paris-Photo. 

The work collects 110 photographs representing the photographer’s career. During Angst’s visit last summer to Tomatsu’s Okinawa studio, where he had retired for health reasons, the photographer approved the publisher’s selection.
Only a few photographs of Okinawa dating from the first years of the occupation of the city by the Americans were removed because they will be included in a different publication about the era. Three other photographs were not included because their negatives could not be located. 

The selection shows why Tomatsu is considered by Japanese photographers like Nobuyoshi Araki and Daido Moriyama as “The Godfather.”

Bernard Perrine

Book
Shomei Tomatsu, Photographs 1951-2001
Éditeur Only-Photography
127 pages, 90 photographs
248x325mm,
English and Japanese
ISBN: 978-3-9812537-7-1

Limited edition 500ex signed and numbered.

Roland Angst, Only-Photography
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