Talk:Shōmei Tōmatsu

message: I think more can be said about the transition that took place in Okinawa, particularly in regards to the ideology that Okinawa served as almost a storehouse for pre-modern Japan (i.e. that Okinawa was somehow more representative of a true, ancient Japanese identity)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alesca20 (talk • contribs) 01:55, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Feel free to add it. -- Hoary (talk) 13:00, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Transition in Okinawa 

message: This section is just a start and could really use fine tuning.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alesca20 (talk • contribs) 07:00, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Certainly it needs referencing. -- Hoary (talk) 13:00, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Exhibitions 

message: The late career section could use mention of Interface (which includes images from Plastics).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alesca20 (talk • contribs) 02:40, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Feel free to add it. -- Hoary (talk) 13:00, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  INTERFACE 1980s & 1990s 

message: The heart of the article is written in prose. The exhibitions, awards, and publications are written as a list towards the end of the article, which is common practice for many artists, particularly Japanese photographers. Furthermore, many of the publications and exhibitions are referenced within the biography sections so it doesn't make sense to restructure them once again into prose. However, I do think that the publications section could be reformatted for readability and shortened. Alesca20 (talk) 10:55, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: How/why could "the publications section be [beneficially] reformatted for readability and shortened"? -- Hoary (talk) 13:00, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed List Tag 

message: Iwanami Shashin Bunko 岩波写真文庫 was a large series of booklets published by Iwanami in the 50s. Iwanami probably named it so because bunko (literally something like "library" in the sense of collection of books") was a well-established term for a series of books of small, uniform format (see the feeble stub bunkobon). "Library" has been used similarly by publishers of English books (cf "Everyman's Library", but nowhere near as widely as bunko has for Japanese book(let)s. Many Japanese-language books have their series names written in (kind-of-) English as well as (or instead of) Japanese; however, booklets in this series are only marked 岩波写真文庫. Thinking that "Iwanami Photography Library" was misleading, in this pair of edits I changed it to "Iwanami Shashin Bunko". 
Incidentally, Iwanami Shashin Bunko had at least one imitator. Kadokawa Shashin Bunko 角川写真文庫 published a book with Takeji Iwamiya's photographs of Sado. However, I've seldom encountered any of the booklets in this series, and don't remember encountering any similar booklet in any other. -- Hoary (talk) 23:50, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Iwanami Shashin Bunko

message: The 1968 exhibition (which ran for just two weeks, at Ikebukuro) was "curated", as we'd now say, by more than three people. I'd be surprised if Tōmatsu, Nakahira and Taki were all involved, but it's possible. I'm pretty sure that Naitō was one of the curators. However, I don't have a source for this at hand. The two sources I've added say nothing about who curated it. -- Hoary (talk) 00:24, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Tomatsu talks about the exhibition's editing team including those Nakahira and Taki here. Also I was also working off of SF MOMA's information here. Alesca20 (talk) 22:56, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, you're right. -- Hoary (talk) 01:40, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: 1968 exhibition