Research Catalog

Title

Shomei Tomatsu : skin of the nation / Leo Rubinfien, Sandra S. Phillips, John W. Dower ; preface by Daido Moriyama.

Author

Rubinfien, Leo.

Publication

San Francisco, Calif. : San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in association with Yale University Press, New Haven, c2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Tōmatsu, Shōmei, 1930-
• Phillips, Sandra S., 1945-
• Dower, John W.
• Japan Society (New York, N.Y.)
• Corcoran Gallery of Art.
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Description

223 p. : ill. (some col.); 27 cm.

Summary

A retrospective on the career of Japanese photographer Shomei Tomatsu, whose work has chronicled the changing face of Japan from the 1950s until the present. Included are essays on all aspects of the life & career of the artist, as well as excerpts from Tomatsu's own writings.

Subject

• Tōmatsu, Shōmei, 1930- > Exhibitions
• Photography, Artistic > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Catalog of the exhibition held Sept. 22, 2004-Jan. 2, 2005 at the Japan Society, New York, May 21-Aug. 29, 2005 at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and Feb.-May, 2006 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
• Ill. on lining papers.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [214-216]).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Shōmei Tōmatsu: the skin of the nation / Leo Rubinfien -- Currents in photography in postwar Japan / Sandra S. Phillips -- Contested ground: Shōmei Tōmatsu and the search for identity in postwar Japan / John W. Dower.

ISBN

0300106041

LCCN

^^2004010756

OCLC

• 55138841
• SCSB-12885574

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library