Shomei Tomatsu
Wristwatch Stopped at 11:02, August 9, 1945, Nagasaki
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Shōmei Tōmatsu
1930 - 2012
Wristwatch Stopped at 11:02, August 9, 1945, Nagasaki
gelatin silver print, signed and dated 1961 in pencil on the reverse, framed
image: 13 ⅜ by 12 ⅜ in. (34 by 31.4 cm.)
Executed in 1965, printed later.
Acquired from the photographer by the present owner
Paris, Le Bal, A Handful of Dust, September 2015 – January 2016, and travelling thereafter to:
New York, Pratt Institute, September – December 2016
London, Whitechapel Gallery, June – September 2017
California Museum of Photography, March – December 2018
Vancouver, Polygon Gallery, February – April 2019
Toronto, Ryerson Image Centre, January – April 2020
Taipei, National Center for Photography and Images, May – August 2021
Shōmei Tōmatsu, 11:02 Nagasaki, Tokyo 1966, cover and unpaginated
Shōmei Tōmatsu, Japan 1952-1981, Graz 1984, pp. 9 and 57
Mark Holborn, Black Sun: The Eyes of Four, Roots and Innovation in Japanese Photography, New York 1986, p. 34
Leo Rubinfien, Sandra S. Phillips, and John W. Dower, Shōmei Tōmatsu: Skin of the Nation, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 2004, pl. 42
Aichi Mandala : the early works of Shōmei Tōmatsu, Tokyo: Aichi Prefectural Art Museum 2006, p. 9
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