Hitomi Watanabe
Hitomi Watanabe (渡辺 眸, Watanabe Hitomi, born March 23, 1939) is a Japanese photographer. Her photographs depict speeches, state violence and the aftermath of rioting.
Biography[edit]
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.[1]
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.[2][1]
In 1972 Watanabe took their first trip to India. They went back and forth between India and Japan for several years,[1] then decided to remain in India.[3] The first exhibition of their photographs taken in India was in 1976, and they had several others in later decades.[1]
Bibliography[edit]
- Watanabe, Hitomi (1968). 新宿コンテンポラリー.
- Watanabe, Hitomi (1983). 天竺.
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d Nihon shashinka jiten (日本写真家事典) / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN 4-473-01750-8. (in Japanese)
- ^ Duong, Ha (2018-11-01). "These Photographers Have Captured Tokyo's Vibrant and Powerful Youth Culture". Artsy. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
- ^ "Hitomi WATANABE - 渡辺眸 | Shashasha EU - Delivering Japanese and Asian Photography to the World". Shashasha EU. Retrieved 2023-04-15.
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