Tag Archives: Shomei Tomatsu

Shomei Tomatsu, As Salaam Alaykum

By eyecurious | Published: 15 February 2010
For any Tokyoites out there, Gallery 21 will be showing a selection of works from a lesser-known series of Shomei Tomatsu’s work next month. Although he has never been to Europe or the United States, Tomatsu has done his share of wandering around Asia and in the 1960s he made a trip to Afghanistan, which [...]
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Frauke Eigen, Shoku

By eyecurious | Published: 4 February 2010
Frauke Eigen is currently showing her series Shoku at London’s Atlas Gallery. The series is “inspired by recent visits to Japan” and this comes through in both the subject matter and the approach. These black-and-white images are taken right up close to their subject bringing texture and form to the fore. These are arguably distinguishing [...]
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Nagasaki, 9 August 1945

By eyecurious | Published: 10 August 2009
I posted last week about the bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. A second A-bomb was dropped on Nagasaki three days later, on 9 August 1945. This second atomic bombing seems almost more incomprehensible than the first: the idea that horror on this scale could be repeated just three days later. Shomei Tomatsu photographed [...]
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Japan: A Self-Portrait opening in Tokyo

By eyecurious | Published: 29 April 2009
I have been a bit quiet over the past few days as I have been busy working on two exhibition projects. Last week I went to Sweden to meet with a museum who will be holding the exhibition, Tokyo Stories, which I curated last year and was shown during Paris Photo 2008 at Artcurial. The [...]
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Review: First Doubt

By eyecurious | Published: 11 April 2009
“Postmodern interjection, intervention, and manipulation practiced by the society at large have made the image evident more as an artifice than a true recital of the outside world. That makes me happy.” Allan Chasanoff This quote gives you an idea of the thread that runs through First Doubt, Optical Confusion in Modern Photography, an exhibition held [...]
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