Tomatsu Shomei - a Japanese photographer, famous for his pictures from the atomic ruins of Nagasaki, black and white pictures full of love for the surfaces of things, for their grain and decay. But his pictures convey real human sympathy too. They are never just dreamy still-lives, but even his inanimate objects have a human vulnerability to them, either warmth, or the coldness of departed life. This picture was taken in 1971, and a whole book of Tomatsu's pictures is available cheap! from Phaidon in their 55 Photographers series.