Visions of Japan (Visions of Japan)

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Summary: Social commentary that doesn't knock you upside the head.
Review: Tomatsu Shomei documents the world but with a poet's eye. Bits of plastic appear to mingle with flora and fauna that have washed onto black sands from the sea. Yet, the photo does not seem intimate but other worldly as if taken from high above the ground, as if revealing huge landscapes below. The effect is like a proverb, not quite right, but beautiful--and unsettling. Besides, the quality of the book is great and the price, very little. Would that all art were so.