SHOMEI TOMATSU - HIKARU KAZE / OKINAWA

SHOMEI TOMATSU
HIKARU KAZE / OKINAWA

Sparkling Winds / Okinawa
Published by Shueisha, Tokyo, 1979
Book Size 37 x 26 cm
Pages 1 36 pages
First edition
First printing
Hardcover
Condition Splicase slightly worn. Clean and fine condition book.
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Shomei Tomatsu (1930 – 2012) was perhaps the most influential Japanese photographer of the post-war era.

His raw, grainy and impressionistic style signaled a dramatic break with the quiet formalism that had defined earlier photography. Influencing the anti-establishment Provoke photography movement in Japan in the late 1960s, he is hailed as the stylistic mentor of artists such as Daido Moriyama, Nobuyoshi Araki and Takuma Nakihara.

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Shomei Tomatsu (1930 – 2012) was perhaps the most influential Japanese photographer of the post-war period.

His style marked a dramatic break with the formalism that had defined previous photography. In 1959, he founded, with Kiruji Kawada, Akira Sato, Kira Tanno, Ikko Narahara and Eikoh Hosoe, the Vivo photo agency, which would have a great influence on Japanese photography despite its dissolution two years later. Influencing the Provoke photographic movement in Japan in the late 1960s, he was hailed as the stylistic mentor of artists such as Daido Moriyama, Nobuyoshi Araki and Takuma Nakihara.