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Chewing Gum and Chocolate
- Title
- Chewing Gum and Chocolate / photographs by Shomei Tomatsu ; edited by Leo Rubinfien and John Junkerman ; afterword by Leo Rubinfien.
- Author
- Tōmatsu, Shōmei, 1930-2012.
- Publication
- New York : Aperture, [2014]
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- Description
- 224 pages : chiefly illustrations; 30 cm
- Summary
- Shomei Tomatsu has created a defining portrait of postwar Japan. Beginning with his meditation on the devastation caused by the atomic bombs in 11:02 Nagasaki, Tomatsu focused on the tensions between traditional Japanese culture and the nation's growing Westernization. Beginning in the late 1950s, Tomatsu photographed as many of the American military bases as possible--beginning with those on the main island of Japan and ending in Okinawa, a much-contested archipelago off the southernmost tip of the country. Tomatsu's photographs focused on the impact of the American victory and occupation: uniformed American soldiers carousing in red-light districts with Japanese women; foreign children at play in the seedy landscape of cities like Yokosuka and Atsugi; and the emerging protest- and counter-culture formed in response to the ongoing American military presence. He originally named this series Occupation, but later retitled it Chewing Gum and Chocolate to reflect the handouts given to Japanese kids by the soldiers--sugary and addictive, but lacking in nutritional value.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Pictorial works.
- Call Number
- MFX+ (Tomatsu) 14-7075
- ISBN
- 9781597112505
- 159711250X
- LCCN
- 2014000526
- OCLC
- 859579479
- Author
- Tōmatsu, Shōmei, 1930-2012.
- Title
- Chewing Gum and Chocolate / photographs by Shomei Tomatsu ; edited by Leo Rubinfien and John Junkerman ; afterword by Leo Rubinfien.
- Publisher
- New York : Aperture, [2014]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- Since 1945
- Added Author
- Rubinfien, Leo.Junkerman, John.
- Research Call Number
- MFX+ (Tomatsu) 14-7075