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Tomatsu, Shomei
(b Nagoya, 16 Jan 1930). Japanese photographer. He graduated from Aichi University in 1954 but was a self-taught photographer. In 1952 he submitted some photographs including Tsukare (‘Fatigue’) and Utatane (‘A doze’) to the monthly contest in the magazine Camera, and his talent was recognized by the judges Ken Domon and Ihei Kimura. He became a staff photographer for the Iwanami Photographic Library in 1954 and produced series of works such as Flood Damage and Japanese People and Seto—Pottery Town. In 1956 he became a freelance photographer and published works that commented sharply on the life of the lower middle classes, in magazines such as Chuo koron and Asahi camera. These photographs of office workers, local politicians and ordinary people were exhibited in the one-man show Hito—hito (‘People—people’) in 1959 at the Fuji Photo Salon, Tokyo. In the same year he formed the group Vivo with Ikko Narahara and EIKOH HOSOE and became a leading member.
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