Shomei Tomatsu

Hateruma (from 'The Pencil of the Sun')

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October 5, 02:05 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Shomei Tomatsu

1930 - 2012

Hateruma (from The Pencil of the Sun)

gelatin silver print, signed and dated in pencil on the reverse, 1971, printed in 1973

image: 8 ½ by 12 ½ in. (21.6 by 31.8 cm.)

Acquired from the photographer

Tatsuo Fukushima, What Now?! Japan through the Eyes of Shomei Tomatsu (Toeisha, 1981), p. 124

Shomei Tomatsu: Japan 1952 - 1981 (Graz, 1984), cover and pp. 50 and 84

Islands of Time (Tokyo, 1998), cover and p. 13

Traces – 50 Years of Tomatsu's Works (Tokyo: Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1999), p. 107

Leo Rubinfien, Sandra S. Phillips, and John W. Dower, Shomei Tomatsu: Skin of the Nation (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2004), pl. 79 and rear pastedown

Toshiharu Ito and Ryuta Imafuku, eds., The Pencil of the Sun 1975 | Shomei Tomatsu (Tokyo, 2015), pl. 1

María Martínez Cid and Fernando Gaona, eds., Shomei Tomatsu (Madrid: Fundación MAPFRE, 2018), pl. 115