Hitomi Watanabe
Hitomi Watanabe is a Japanese photographer. Her photographs depict speeches, state violence and the aftermath of rioting.
Hitomi Watanabe
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- 1939 · Tokyo.
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- Japan
- Occupation
- photographer
- Languages
- Japanese
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Watanabe was born on March 23, 1939, in Tokyo, Japan. After graduating from Meiji University, she began working for a publishing company. She then graduated from the Tokyo College of Photography in 1967. She published her first photo collection in 1968. She came to prominence during the Zenkyoto student movement in the late 1960s, participating in the 1970 Anpo protests against the renewal of the Japan-US Mutual Security Treaty. When the treaty was renewed in 1970, Watanabe began drinking fairly heavily as a way to deal with their failure to prevent it. In 1972 Watanabe took their first trip to India. They went back and forth between India and Japan for several years, then decided to remain in India. The first exhibition of their photographs taken in India was in 1976, and they had several others in later decades.
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1939
Hitomi Watanabe born at Tokyo.
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- 1.Nihon shashinka jiten ( ) / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. .
- 2.Duong, Ha. These Photographers Have Captured Tokyo's Vibrant and Powerful Youth Culture. Artsy. 2018-11-01.
- 3.Hitomi WATANABE - 渡辺眸 Shashasha EU - Delivering Japanese and Asian Photography to the World. Shashasha EU.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- Watanabe, Hitomi. 新宿コンテンポラリー. 1968.
- Watanabe, Hitomi. 天竺. 1983.
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