The first response came three days later from a synth repair tech in Osaka named Haruki. He wrote:
Petit Tomato isn’t about food or gardening or nostalgia. It’s about scale as a moral position. Kiyooka says: pay attention to the small thing as if it were the only thing. The Upd series is an update to your soul’s resolution. And this tiny red fruit — this petit tomato — is the clearest image I know of how it feels to be both insignificant and infinite at the same time. sumiko kiyooka petit tomato upd
: The series featured nude photography of young girls, a genre that was popular in Japan during the late 1970s and 1980s. The first response came three days later from
Sumiko Kiyooka (1921–1991), also known as Junko Kiyooka, was a pioneering and controversial figure in Japanese photography whose career spanned from gritty war reportage to the commercialized "shōjo" (young girl) aesthetic of the 1980s Kiyooka says: pay attention to the small thing
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: The magazine followed the massive success of Kiyooka's 1983 photo book I am "Mayu," 13 Years Old