On Shomei Tomatsu ♥ Birthday

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

self portrait

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❝ When I am faced with the victims of the bomb, I find myself almost praying as I release the shutter of my camera. It is as if they are the God of the fin-de-siècle, Christ of the nuclear age.


❝ A photographer looks at everything, which is why he must look from beginning to end. Face the subject head-on, stay fixed, turn the entire body into an eye and face the world.

- Shomei Tomatsu -

January 16, 1930 - December 14, 2012


Influential Japanese postwar photographer
who turned his camera on his homeland.

Shomei Tomatsu | MoMA

Shomei Tomatsu: the man who changed Japanese photography for ever
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