Ausstellungskatalog, Europalia ‘89, Japan in Belgium, Antwerpen, Provinciaal Museum voor Fotografie, 01.10.-12.11.1989; Charleroi, Musée de la Photographie, 27.10.-17.12.1989.
Text dt. - Engl. Origialausgabe New York 1976 unter dem Titel Photography Year 1976. Major contributions: William Egglestone; Loudon Wainwright on Walker Evans.
[Text at Schaden.com:] Portraits of Kazuo Nishii, Shomei Tomatsu, Daido Moriyama and Nobuyoshi Araki hanging out after the opening of Kitajimas exhibition at CAMP-Gallery in Tokyo 1979. - Nur Kurztitelaufnahme 04.2004. - Check entry.
Text engl. - Otheredition: dt. Ausgabe unter dem Titel Photographie 1976/77. Major contributions: William Egglestone; Loudon Wainwright on Walker Evans.
Text engl. - „Japan’s brilliant and influential postwar photographer Shomei Tomatsu (b. 1930) has created some of the most dramatic images in the history of photography. Many of his photographs have become icons of the twentieth century. This important book is the first in-depth English-language study of Tomatsu’s work. Richly illustrated and handsomely designed, it features more than one hundred plates representing in ten thematic sections the full range of his career. - Tomatsu emerged in the 1950s with his sensitive pictures of postwar Japan. In the 1960s the artist turned his camera to the aftermath of the atomic bomb and the lingering presence of the U. S. military in his homeland. In subsequent decades his lens has captured the elation of Japan’s economic boom and the problems inspired by his culture’s increasing westernization. Throughout, Tomatsu’s pictures have consistently resonated not only with Japanese society but also with American culture. Included in this book are essays by distinguished scholars on all aspects of the artist’s life and career as well as a selection of brief excerpts from Tomatsu’s own writings, many of which have never appeared in English. -
Skin of the Nation (the book’s subtitle) is both a literal and metaphorical reference to the surfaces that have appeared in countless pictures throughout Tomatsu’s career. For the artist, skin is more than just a surface, it is a kind of map in which one can read the story of Japan, its essence and its future. (http://astore.amazon.com/japankenkyu-20/detail/0300106041/184-0765784-4191030)
Text dt., engl.- „Diese Broschüre erscheint anlässlich der Ausstellung ’Arbeit/ Labour. Set 7’ aus der Sammlung und Archiv des Fotomuseum Winterthur, 11. September 2010 bis 8. Mai 2011/ This leaflet was published on the occasion of the exhibition ,Arbeit/ Labour. Set 7’ from the collection and archive of the Fotomuseum Winterthur.“
Text dt., engl.- „Diese Broschüre erscheint anlässlich der Ausstellung ’Von Horizonten. Set 8’ aus der Sammlung und Archiv des Fotomuseum Winterthur, 3. September 2011 bis 20. Mai 2012/ This leaflet was published on the occasion of the exhibition ,On horizons. Set 8’ from the collection and archive of the Fotomuseum Winterthur.“