{"product_id":"chewing-gum-and-chocolate","title":"Chewing Gum and Chocolate — Shomei Tomatsu (2014 edition)","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"126\" data-end=\"611\"\u003eThis is the 2014 Kehrer Verlag edition of \u003cem data-start=\"168\" data-end=\"195\"\u003eChewing Gum and Chocolate\u003c\/em\u003e, a career-defining monograph of Shomei Tomatsu’s work chronicling postwar Japan through its most volatile contradictions. The title itself — sweet, disposable, foreign — cues the tension at the heart of Tomatsu’s images: a Japan occupied, Americanised, economically blooming, and spiritually unsettled. The book presents a black-and-white archive that veers from documentary to surreal, locating beauty in rupture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"613\" data-end=\"1193\"\u003eAcross its pages, Tomatsu focuses on Okinawa and the aftermath of war, US military presence, and the shifting face of Japanese identity. Street portraits of swaggering youths, scarred veterans, military debris, and lovers in shadowy interiors unfold with a calm, pointed urgency. His camera is not voyeuristic but implicated — tuned to surfaces yet dense with political temperature. The cover image, a young man in a white suit in Koza, Okinawa (1976–80), captures a hybridised, poised defiance, a stylish assertion of individuality within the larger scene of cultural occupation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1195\" data-end=\"1565\"\u003eTomatsu belongs in Darwin as a central figure in the Japanese postwar photographic avant-garde — alongside contemporaries like Daidō Moriyama or Nobuyoshi Araki, yet more overtly political. If Moriyama’s images dissolve into grain and desire, Tomatsu’s crystallise history into form. \u003cem data-start=\"1479\" data-end=\"1506\"\u003eChewing Gum and Chocolate\u003c\/em\u003e is both an aesthetic statement and a historical reckoning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1567\" data-end=\"1586\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1567\" data-end=\"1586\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1588\" data-end=\"1953\"\u003eTitle: Chewing Gum and Chocolate\u003cbr data-start=\"1620\" data-end=\"1623\"\u003eArtist \/ Author: Shomei Tomatsu\u003cbr data-start=\"1654\" data-end=\"1657\"\u003eDate: 2014 edition\u003cbr data-start=\"1675\" data-end=\"1678\"\u003eTechnique \/ Printing Method: Offset\u003cbr data-start=\"1713\" data-end=\"1716\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Hardcover, printed boards\u003cbr data-start=\"1761\" data-end=\"1764\"\u003eDimensions (cm): approx. 24 x 30 cm\u003cbr data-start=\"1799\" data-end=\"1802\"\u003eLanguage: German\u003cbr data-start=\"1818\" data-end=\"1821\"\u003ePages: Unstated\u003cbr data-start=\"1836\" data-end=\"1839\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor: Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg Berlin \/ Aperture Foundation\u003cbr data-start=\"1912\" data-end=\"1915\"\u003eISBN: 9783868284980\u003cbr data-start=\"1934\" data-end=\"1937\"\u003eCondition: NEW\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51614896882002,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/TODWEBB_copy_2_7a515756-d976-4c60-9e83-d18a9c43b074.jpg?v=1769358243","url":"https:\/\/thedarwin.es\/products\/chewing-gum-and-chocolate","provider":"DaRWIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}