Publisher/写研

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"Oh! Shinjuku" is a photo collection by Tomatsu Shomei, one of Japan's leading photographers. He was described as a "poet who photographs history," and his outstanding artistic sense made Daido Moriyama say, "He's good. He's too cool." He was also a documentarian who pursued the past, present, and future of "Okinawa" and "Nagasaki" against the backdrop of "war" and "America." This is another history of "Shinjuku" photographed by Tomatsu. In the late 1960s, Tomatsu, who lived in Shinjuku Ward at the time, felt the pulse of this city, which continued to fluctuate greatly with the times. Underground, vagabond, sex, chaos, amoeba, jungle, young people, students, the masses, crime, shamelessness, anti-authority... This is the history and record of the city of "Shinjuku," which is the "face of the times" where various elements are mixed together, and which exudes a sense of "freedom," but whose freedom is about to be taken away by the crackdown of state power. Reflecting the times, this is one of Tomatsu's collections that most strongly displays free, challenging and avant-garde expression.