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Shomei Tomatsu, one of Japan's foremost twentieth-century photographers created one of the defining portraits of postwar Japan.

Beginning with his meditation on the devastation caused by the atomic bomb in Nagasaki, Tomatsu continued to focus on the tensions between traditional Japanese culture and the growing Westernization of the nation. Beginning in the late 1950s, Tomatsu depicted the seismic impact of the American victory and occupation. He orig... >Voir plus