Shomei Tomatsu, Mr. Freedom

Mr. Freedom

Shomei Tomatsu

Publisher
Akio Nagasawa Publishing
Year
2020
Specifications
Hardcover
260 x 215mm
32 pages
Text in Japanese / English
Numbered, limited edition of 900

A gathering of self-portraits from the series Mr. Freedom, in which Tomatsu freely plays whatever character he pleases. It also includes his portraits of Daido Moriyama, Masahisa Fukase and Nobuyoshi Araki.

“One day he asked me totally out of the blue to let him take a picture of me. Without thinking much about it I told him to go ahead, only to hear that he wanted me in women's clothes. Me in drag? Although I hesitated a moment, I eventually agreed, because it seemed like fun to dress like the men in the gay bars of Shinjuku 2-chome that I was frequently visiting at the time. However, when he took me to a small studio a few days later, it turned out that the costume he had arranged was a wedding dress.”

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