Lot 324: SHOMEI TOMATSU

SHOMEI TOMATSU

Sengoha -- Après Guerre. Tokyo: Chuo koronsha, 1971.

Quarto (258x210mm). Black and white photographs throughout. (Some spotting, not affecting the images.) Original white paper-covered boards, upper cover stamped in grey, original dust-jacket, original obi and original plastic dust-jacket (spine ends lightly rubbed, spine of obi very lightly faded).

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY TOMATSU, and in the rare original plastic dust-jacket. Pulished as part of Yamagishi's highly influential Eizo no Gendai series which 'established a sort of canon for contemporary Japanese photography of the time'. Kaneko & Vartanian, Japanese Photobooks, pp.14, 20.

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