GANGS OF KABUKICHO

Kotaro,Iizawa author and Katsumi, Watanabe photographs

ISBN 10: 097154803X ISBN 13: 9780971548039

Published by PPP Editions / Andrew Roth Inc, New York, 2006

Condition: Near Fine Soft cover

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1st edition, 2006. Near Fine. 4to., unpaginated, black & white images on thick paper. Bound in publishers illustrated stiff wraps with publishers clear acrylic sleeve. Black end papers allow vision to the white portions of wrapper, thru the hinges. Spine appears to have been over glued. Sleeve shows some minor scratching and rubbing, otherwise clean and unmarked. The subjects of itinerant Tokyo portrait photographer Watanabe Katsumi's 1960s and 70s photographs are the prostitutes, street people, drag queens, entertainers and gangsters (Yakuza) that populated Kabukicho, the red-light district of Shinjuku, at night during that era. Watanabe made his living by selling these photographs to his subjects, offering three prints for 200 yen. A modest gentleman, Watanabe had a keen sensitivity to the natural posturing of his subjects, which allowed them to uninhibitedly reveal their identities. He saw Kabukicho as a stage, and his photographs document the performers. To accompany the photographs collected in this volume, which borrows its title from Watanabe's first book, The Gangs of Shinjuku. Seller Inventory # 26736

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Title: GANGS OF KABUKICHO

Publisher: PPP Editions / Andrew Roth Inc, New York

Publication Date: 2006

Binding: Wraps

Illustrator: Wantanabe Katsumi

Condition: Near Fine

Edition: 1st edition.

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The subjects of itinerant Tokyo portrait photographer Watanabe Katsumi's 1960s and 70s photographs are the prostitutes, street people, drag queens, entertainers and gangsters (Yakuza) that populated Kabukicho, the red-light district of Shinjuku, at night during that era. Watanabe made his living by selling these photographs to his subjects, offering three prints for 200 yen. A modest gentleman, Watanabe had a keen sensitivity to the natural posturing of his subjects, which allowed them to uninhibitedly reveal their identities. He saw Kabukicho as a stage, and his photographs document the performers. To accompany the photographs collected in this volume, which borrows its title from Watanabe's first book, The Gangs of Shinjuku, published in 1973, Iizawa Kotaro, who wrote the noted essay "The Evolution of Postwar Photography," in Anne Tucker's essential study, The History of Japanese Photography, chronicles the history of Shinjuku and offers a biography of Watanabe, who died last year at the age of 67.

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