“Shomei Tomatsu (1930 – 2012) was perhaps the most influential Japanese photographer of the post-war era.  His raw, grainy and impressionistic style signalled a dramatic break with the quiet formalism that had defined earlier photography.  Influencing the anti-establishment Provoke photography movement in Japan in the late 1960s, he is hailed as the stylistic mentor of artists such as Daido Moriyama, Nobuyoshi Araki and Takuma Nakihara.”

-Michael Hoppen Gallery,  http://www.michaelhoppengallery.com/artists/64-shomei-tomatsu/overview/#/artworks/9760