Lot 197: SHOMEI TOMATSU

SHOMEI TOMATSU 11:02 Nagasaki . Tokyo: Shashindojinsha, 1966. Quarto (220 x 190mm). 119 black and white photographs. Original photo-illustrated boards (spine evenly browned, light rubbing at extremities), original printed cardboard slipcase (light wear). FIRST EDITION. 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.

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