Shōmei Tōmatsu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Japanese photographer
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Place of Birth: Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
About Shōmei Tōmatsu
- Shomei Tomatsu (?? ??, Tomatsu Shomei, January 16, 1930 – December 14, 2012) was a Japanese photographer.Born in Nagoya in 1930, Tomatsu studied economics at Aichi University, graduating in 1954.
- While still a student, he had his photographs published by the major Japanese photography magazines.
- He entered Iwanami and worked on the series Iwanami Shashin Bunko.
- Two years later, he left in order to freelance. In 1959, Tomatsu formed Vivo with Eikoh Hosoe and Ikko Narahara.
- Two years later, his and Ken Domon's book Hiroshima–Nagasaki Document 1961, on the effects of the atomic bombs, was published to great acclaim. In 1972, he moved to Okinawa; in 1975, his prizewinning book of photographs of Okinawa, Pencil of the Sun (?????, Taiyo no enpitsu) was published. Tomatsu moved to Nagasaki in 1998.
- Tomatsu died in Naha (Okinawa) on 14 December 2012 (although this was not publicly announced until January 2013).
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