Publisher/長崎県立美術博物館

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Japanese photographer Shomei Tomatsu's photo book "Nagasaki Mandala / Nagasaki Mandala (Signed)". Along with Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Ikko Narahara, and Eikoh Hosoe, Shomei Tomatsu is one of the leading photographers of postwar Japan. Born in Aichi Prefecture, Tomatsu spent his childhood in the post-war period when the Allied Forces of the United States was full of officers and soldiers. increase. Therefore, he turned his attention to areas such as "Okinawa" and "Nagasaki", moved there himself, and continued to pursue the "shadow of war" for many years. This book is a collection of works published at the exhibition held at the Nagasaki Prefectural Museum of Art in 2000. Although it is a catalog, it is a large book with little text and a total of 304 monochrome and color illustrations. Shomei Tomatsu visited Nagasaki for the first time in 1961, 15 years after the atomic bombing, and continued to photograph Nagasaki for over 30 years. The trajectory of a great photographer who combines criticality, sociality, and artistry is engraved with certain facts that we must never forget. Signed by the photographer .