Cigarette Smoke
1965, printed 1980
Artist, Japanese, 1930 - 2012
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 20.64 × 31.75 cm (8 1/8 × 12 1/2 in.)
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Accession
2015.19.5057
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Shomei Tomatsu, Nagasaki, Japan; purchased by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2006; acquired by NGA, 2015.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2004
Shomei Tomatsu: Skin of a Nation, Japan Society Gallery, New York, September 22, 2004 – January 2, 2005; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 21 – August 29, 2005; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 13 – August 13, 2006
2008
Sight/Insight: People and Places, Recent Acquisitions of Photography and Media Arts, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, April 30 – September 15, 2008
2011
Framed: Street Photography from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, February 3 – April 17, 2011
Bibliography
2004
Shomei Tomatsu: Skin of the Nation. Exh. cat. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2004: plate 62, no. 108.
Inscriptions
on verso, signed by artist lower right corner in graphite: '80 Tom [underlined]; by artist lower right: 1965; by unknown hand, on white label affixed in top right corner in black ink: 144
Wikidata ID
Q64171351