Publisher/ワイズ出版

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This is a photobook by Katsumi Watanabe, one of Japan's leading photographers. He became interested in photography while working as a waiter at a newspaper company, and after moving to Tokyo, he studied studio photography at the Tojo Kaikan photography department. Influenced by a senior photographer who worked as a street photographer in Shinjuku, he became a freelancer. He bought an enlarger with his meager severance pay and wandered the streets of Shinjuku at night, taking portraits for 200 yen for three prints. Enduring hunger and cutting costs, he continued to photograph vagrants, sex workers, gays, delinquents, and yakuza, captivated by the drama of life woven by these unique individuals, and throughout his life, he continued to depict the drama of Shinjuku. "A city where hidden things surface, only to disappear like bubbles," "A city where something new happens in the shadows and then immediately comes out into the open"—Shinjuku is a strange, captivating, harsh, yet gentle city. This book is composed of illustrations taken in the late 1990s, during the later stages of Watanabe's career. Comparing this work with illustrations and photo collections from the 1960s and early 1970s, you can appreciate the changes in Shinjuku over time, including the emergence of the "kogal" (a type of trendy, fashionable young woman). Signed by the photographer .