Lot 122: SHOMEI TOMATSU

SHOMEI TOMATSU
11:02 Nagasaki. Tokyo: Shashindojinsha, 1966.

Quarto (220 x 190 mm). 119 black and white photographs. Original photo-illustrated boards (spine lightly browned, light rubbing at extremities); original printed cardboard slipcase (light wear); black cloth folding case.

FIRST EDITION. A very good copy, complete with the printed leaflet laid-in. One of "the most significant memorials to the defining event in twentieth-century Japanese history", which illustrates "a clear progression towards truly world class Japanese photographic expression" (The Photobook). The Open Book, pp.226-27; The Photobook, vol. I, pp.274-77.