Saw the Matthew Barney and Shomei Tomatsu shows on sunday, last day for Tomatsu so I am glad I went. Aesthetically Barney was nice but lacked solid and interesting ideas, for me, and did not live up to the hype. Tomatsu on the other hand is a master photographer and should get more attention here. The link above goes to the SFMoma site for Tomatsu and the photograph is one he took in Afghanistan. His work in Nagasaki is powerful and he reluctantly took that assignment. Barney is fine but it is ironic that he had a show investigating Japanese culture to some extent while the floor below was indeed Japanese. Barney was impressive but Tomatsu is perfect.
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