Lot 322: SHOMEI TOMATSU

SHOMEI TOMATSU

Nihon -- Japan. Tokyo: Shaken, 1967.

Quarto (220 x 190mm). 148 black and white photographs. (Very occasional minor soiling.) Original silver cloth, spine stamped in black, front cover blind-stamped (lacking the rare vinyl dust-jacket, minor soiling).

FIRST EDITION. An excellent copy of the first publication by Shaken -- Tomatsu's own imprint. In Nihon Tomatsu had, for the first time, complete control over his book's content and design. A selection from this work was exhibited at MoMA in 1974. Kaneko & Vartanian, Japanese Photobooks, pp.94-101; Visions of Japan, p.207.

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