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Shomei Tomatsu

As one of the leading photographers of the postwar period, he led the Japanese photography world together with Ikkō Narahara and Eikoh Hosoe until his death in 2012. Since moving to Okinawa in 1972, he has taken many photographs of Okinawa. Main solo exhibitions include, 1984 "SHOMEI TOMATSU Japan 1952-1981" (Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, etc.) 1992 "SAKURA +PLASTICS" exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo 1999 "Chronicle of Japanese Islands: 50 Years of Shomei Tomatsu" (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum), Awarded Japan Art Grand Prize (Sponsored by Shincho Literature Promotion Society) 2000 "Nagasaki Mandara Exhibition" (Nagasaki Prefectural Museum) 2002 "Shomei Tomatsu Exhibition Okinawa Mandala" (Urasoe Art Museum) 2003 "Photographs by Shomei Tomatsu 1972-2002" (The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto) 2004 "Skin of the Nation" (Touring exhibition in Washington and San Francisco) 2006 "Aichi Mandala: The Early Works of Shomei Tomatsu" (Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art) 2007 "Shomei Tomatsu: Tokyo Mandala" (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum)

Biography

1930 Born in Aichi, Japan
1958 Awarded the Newcomer’s Prize of the Japan Photography Critics Society
1959 Establishes VIVO, a group of photographers with Ikkō Narahara, Eikoh Hosoe, and others
1961 Published "hiroshima-nagasaki document 1961" (5th Japan Society of Photo Critics Award) with Ken Domon and others
1975 Awarded the Photographer of the Year Prize of the Japan Professional Photographers Society for his photo collection "Pencil of the Sun" and the Minister of Education’s Art Encouragement Prize the following year.
1995 Awarded Medal with Purple Ribbon
1999 Awarded the Japan Art Grand Prize (Sponsored by the Shincho Literary Foundation)
2003 Award the Chunichi Bunka Prize
2012 December Died

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