Photographer Tomatsu dies

Photographer Tomatsu dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in 2009 shows Shomei Tomatsu, a Japanese photographer famous for subjects such as atomic-bomb survivors in Nagasaki and postwar scenes in U.S.-occupied Okinawa Prefecture. Tomatsu died on Dec. 14, 2012, of pneumonia at a hospital in Okinawa's capital Naha. He was 82.

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