Acknowledgment
As the recipient of the Shi-Ju-Hou-Shou* (Medal
with a Purple Ribbon) in 2003, I would like to express my sincere gratitude
to everyone who helped make this possible with their undaunted support.
Now, getting back to the importance
of image records, as a reflection on social conditions, I would like to
record on digital camera a series of photographs that spans 32 years,
known as "Gendaigokan-Our Day".
November 2003
Tomiyama Haruo
*Shi-Ju-Hou-Shou
(Medal with a Purple Ribbon) is a National Award presented to candidates
who have achieved excellence with an invention, improvement, or creation
of something in academic or artistic fields.
Contents:
Essay
Haruo Tomiyama - Seeking to write
an essay with pictures
text by Yoshio Fukushima
The great Cartier-Bresson, known for his ability to capture the "decisive
moment," seeing Tomiyama's penetrating social criticism expressed
through images, exclaimed, "I can't just rest on my own merits."
(more)
"Motion-Haruo
Tomiyama Style"
text by Itou Seikou
Mr. Tomiyama said that the work he has been doing has been satirical.
Yet, generally speaking, those who make satirical jokes usually never
place their bodies in the flow of the world. They see the world from
a distance rather than accepting things head-on and then criticize.
It is clear that Haruo Tomiyama is different from them,(more)
A
preview and a draft paper for the exhibition,
"ZEN" and "Our Day".
at Cannon
Salon S, Tokyo. (exhibition expired)
I am deeply grateful to visitors who have come to the Cannon Salon S
in Shinagawa during my exhibiton.
Haruo Tomiyama
April
4 - June 15, 2003 (completed)
Patrimoine
Photographique
Hotel de Sully 62 Rue Saint-Antoine 75004 PARIS
Tomiyama
Haruo profile.
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