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A photo book of Japanese female photographer Hitomi Watanabe "1968 Shinjuku". Shinjuku was the base, stage, and battlefield of the cultural movement of the 1960s. The legendary photo book "Shinjuku Contemporary" (1968), which depicts people with a hot spirit gathering there. Then, after the demonstration he encountered in Shinjuku, he became interested in the student struggle at that time, and was the only one allowed to shoot in the barricade of the Yasuda Auditorium of the University of Tokyo, and documented "Zenkyoto of the University of Tokyo" (1969). Hitomi Watanabe, a female photographer representing postwar Japan, has continued to portray the trends of the times with abundant curiosity, such as the Indian "Barricade" recorded over the course. This book is a photo book published in 2014, and consists of photographs of Shinjuku at the end of the 1960s, which can be said to be the origin of Watanabe's photographs. It is written at the end of the book that "Shinjuku was a culture", but cultural figures such as "Art Theater Shinjuku Culture" where up-and-coming cultural figures such as Shuji Terayama gathered and screened an avant-garde movie, and Juro Kara's Situation Theater. This is a book that cuts out the details of the city by pointing the lens not only on the main street but also on the back side of Shinjuku, which shows the scene of the city where the magnetic field was formed and it became the stage of the struggle and the times were concentrated. ..