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 representingin ten thematic sectionsthe 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 Japanits essence and its future.

Shomei Tomatsu: Skin of the Nation

Arts & Photography

Rubinfien, Leo

Dower, John W.

Phillips, Sandra S.

Shomei Tomatsu

Photography & Video

Yale University Press

Widely regarded as one of the most important photographers of the 20th century, Garry Winogrand (1928–1984) did much of his best-known work in Manhattan during the 1960s, becoming an epic chronicler of that tumultuous decade. But Winogrand was also an avid traveler and roamed extensively around the United States, bringing exquisite work out of nearly every region of the country.
This landmark retrospective catalogue looks at the full sweep of Winogrand’s exceptional career. Drawing from his enormous output, which at the time of his death included thousands of rolls of undeveloped film and unpublished contact sheets, the book will serve as the most substantial compendium of Winogrand’s work to date. Lavishly illustrated with both iconic images and photographs that have never been seen before now, and featuring essays by leading scholars of American photography, Garry Winogrand presents a vivid portrait of an artist who unflinchingly captured America’s swings between optimism and upheaval in the postwar era.

Garry Winogrand

Greenough, Sarah

Papageorge, Tod

O'Toole, Erin

The work of Martin Parr (b. 1952) bridges the divide between art and documentary photography. His studies of the idiosyncrasies of mass culture and consumerism around the world, his innovative imagery and his prolific output have placed him at the forefront of contemporary art.

Martin Parr

Individual Artists

Phaidon Press

Martin Parr is an affordable, pocket-sized monograph charting the influential Magnum photographer's entire career, beginning with his early black-and-white photographs and continuing on to major projects such as The Last Resort and Think of England. The book features an introductory essay by Sandra D. Phillips, Senior Curator of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Martin Parr (Spanish Edition)

The first book to trace the tradition of landscape photography in the American West, with over 150 images, many never before published. From the gold rush to the great railroad constructions, these early images chart the rapid advance of industrialization during the 19th cent. More recent photos convey the complicated aftereffects of this westward expansion, documenting the trail of human encroachment on the natural environment. This volume features work by many important classic & contemporary photographers, as well as essays on the photography, mythology, geology, & architecture of the West by four distinguished authors. Explores the complex social, political, & cultural ramifications of this ever-changing landscape.

Crossing the Frontier: Photographs of the Developing West, 1849 to the Present

History

Americas

Diane Pub Co.

Examines all aspects of the artist's production and discusses his connections with artists and radicals in pre-World War I New York, in Paris between the wars, and in Hollywood after World War II

Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray

Shattuck, Roger

Foresta, Merry

Foster, Stephen C.

Klüver, Billy

Naumann, Francis

Turner, Elizabeth H.

History & Criticism

Abbeville Pr

Profiles the homesteads of the Hudson River artists, including Thomas Cole, Frederic E. Church, Albert Bierstadt, and Asher B. Durand

Charmed Places: Hudson River Artists and Their Houses, Studios, and Vistas

Weintraub, Linda

Travel

Harry N. Abrams

Helen Levitt

Soft cover book titled HELEN LEVITTby Sandra Phillips and Maria Morris Hambourg. Published by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1991. Illustrated with over 125 mostly black and white photographs by a great artist. See my photographs (3) of this book on main listing page. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-Base2-C-1-middle-L) Rareviewbooks

HAMBOURG, Maria Morris

San Francisco Museum

Catalogue spanning Levitt\'s fifty-year photography career, featuring over 125 b&amp;w and color illustrations, published on the occasion of the exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1991-1992. Hardcover edition.

Book by Phillips, Sandra S., Szarkowski, John

Wright Morris: Origin of a Species

SZARKOWSKI,JOHN

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