Comments on: Shomei Tomatsu at Japan Society, N.Y.

By: Steven Keirstead

Steven Keirstead — Fri, 04 May 2007 13:54:40 +0000

Note that the melted bottle image by Shomei Tomatsu above is from his “11:02 Nagasaki” series. The bottle found in the ruins of Nagasaki after the second atomic bomb used in World War II, though the images of the series were made in the early 1960’s, they all relate to the atomic detonation in 1945. They include objects damaged by the bomb, and people who survived, often with scars from their radiation burns. Not really LOL, eh?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 08:47:00 +0000

There was a comprehensive Nakahira exhibition “Degree Zero - Yokohama” at the Yokohama Museum of Art from October through December last year in which both his current and past work was displayed. Simultaneously there was an small exhibition of photographs of Nakahira by Homma Takashi at NADIFF Gallery in Tokyo. The photographs were published in a small collection “Short Hope” and a short film about Nakahira was screened at NADIFF around the same time. Signals of a mini-revival of interest in Nakahira, at least in Japan, perhaps he will receive more exposure in Europe and the US? Japan Society should really pick up “Degree Zero” but I’m not holding my breath.

By: Sandra Rocha

Sandra Rocha — Wed, 24 Nov 2004 07:03:00 +0000

what a strange shape, I was struggling to understand it until I saw you note lol
at first I thought it was some sort of distorted living thing, very strange almost alien :-)
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