Aichi Mandala: The Early Works of Shomei Tomatsu

First Edition, 2006. 269 pages.

Book measures 9 x 11.5 inches. Catalog produced to accompany the exhibition of Tomatsu Shomei's photographs held at the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art in 2006. It consists of photographs taken in Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture, where he was born, from the early 1950s to the mid-1960s. The photographs are arranged in chronological order starting from 1950. Includes the essays Tomatsu Shomei: Time Traveler by Ichikawa Masanori, and Toward the 'Interface': Nagoya years of Tomatsu Shomei by Iizawa Kotaro, both in Japanese and English translation.