Lot 321: SHOMEI TOMATSU

SHOMEI TOMATSU

11:02 Nagasaki. Tokyo: Shashindojinsha, 1966.

Quarto (220 x 190 mm). 119 black and white photographs. Original photo-illustrated boards (light browning on spine and a few spots), original plastic dust-jacket (slightly short and shrunk, as always, light wear), original printed cardboard slipcase (light browning and light wear).

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY TOMATSU, IN THE RARE PLASTIC DUST-JACKET, and complete with the publisher's printed insert 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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