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Katsumi WatanabeShinjuku gunto den 66/73

Katsumi Watanabe – Shinjuku gunto den 66/73

Photographs: Katsumi Watanabe

Publisher: Bara gahou sha, Tokyo

128 pages

Pictures: 128

Year: 1973

Price: € 1500

From the late 1960s to the early 1970s, Katsumi Watanabe photographed bar hostesses, drag queens, and gangsters in Shinjuku as a “drifting portrait photographer.” As a drifting photographer, a very unique profession even at the time, he would walk around Shinjuku daily with a camera in hand and wait for someone to ask him to shoot a portrait. He would go home, process and print, and return the next day with prints for his customers. Watanabe’s subjects strike various poses to present themselves and their lives in Shinjuku with confidence. The photographs were quite precious to their subjects, some of whom sent their portraits to families in the country in the place of a letter.

In the 1970s, when inexpensive automatic cameras began to spread, it became difficult for Watanabe to make his living as a drifting photographer. Watanabe, however, continued to produce a massive archive of images of Shinjuku and its inhabitants. In addition to portraits, he shot children playing in back alleys, a riot in front of Koma Gekijo, and the piles of empty cans accumulating on Shinjuku’s street corners. As one of its inhabitants, Watanabe provided an insider’s view of the transformation of Shinjuku.

Stapled softcover, illustrated cover. B&w photographs beautifully reproduced on newspaper. Mentioned in Kaneko Ryuchi's book Japanese photobook 1960-1970, p.140-143. In very good condition other a small crease on the corner of the cover (see picture) ! RARE
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