Shomei Tomatsu: Skin of the Nation, a retrospective, was organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and curated by Sandra Phillips and the photographer and writer Leo Rubinfien.
ISBN 2-08-030463-1 Kimura is one of eleven photographers whose works appear in this large book (the others are Ken Domon, Hiroshi Hamaya, Tadahiko Hayashi, Eikoh Hosoe, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Kikuji Kawada, Shigeichi Nagano, Ikkō Narahara, Takeyoshi Tanuma, and Shōmei Tōmatsu).
Domon is one of eleven photographers whose works appear in this large book (the others are Hiroshi Hamaya, Tadahiko Hayashi, Eikoh Hosoe, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Kikuji Kawada, Ihei Kimura, Shigeichi Nagano, Ikkō Narahara, Takeyoshi Tanuma, and Shōmei Tōmatsu).
Exhibitions include solo- and group exhibitions with artists such as Diane Arbus, Louise Bourgeois, Bruce Conner, William Eggleston, Howard Hodgkin, Robert Irwin, André Kertész, Paul McCarthy, Catherine Opie, David Reed, Ugo Rondinone, Ed Ruscha, Lucas Samaras, Kazuo Shiraga, Shōmei Tōmatsu, Franz West, Terry Winters, Lucas Blalock and Constantin Brâncusi.
Hayashi is one of eleven photographers whose works appear in this large book (the others are Ken Domon, Hiroshi Hamaya, Eikoh Hosoe, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Kikuji Kawada, Ihei Kimura, Shigeichi Nagano, Ikkō Narahara, Takeyoshi Tanuma, and Shōmei Tōmatsu).
Two years later, he left the magazine in order to pursue his own career as a photographer, and he became close friends with Shōmei Tōmatsu, Shūji Terayama, and Daidō Moriyama.