Publisher/スーパーラボ

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"Make" is a collection of works by Shomei Tomatsu (1930-2012), a photographer who represents postwar Japanese photography. Tomatsu keenly observed the turbulent times of postwar Japanese society, US military bases, Nagasaki, and Okinawa, and was an artist who not only documented reality but also constantly questioned the possibilities of photographic expression itself. This book is an extremely personal self-curation, re-examining and structuring his own work spanning approximately 60 years, prompted by a question posed to him by a European art director during his lifetime: "Are your photographs Take or Make?" While photographic expression is generally contrasted as "Take = capturing reality" and "Make = creating through staging," Tomatsu's work, from his debut to his later years, freely traversed both. This book can be said to be a book that quietly proves, through his own works, Tomatsu's creative stance, which cannot be captured by a simple binary opposition in the history of photography. This important collection, which also carries a posthumous significance, re-edits a wide range of series from his early works to "Plastics" and "Character P," presenting one of the answers the photographer himself arrived at.