Shinjuku Contemporary
Hitomi Watanabe
Shinjuku Contemporary
Photographs: Hitomi Watanabe
Publisher: Self published
Pictures: 41
Year: 1968
Comments: Soft cover under dust jacket, 24,5 by 18cm, black and white photographs. some wears into the spine. Stitching is fragile.Extremely scarce!!
The core of the collection is formed by photographs from the year 1969, the year in which the Shinjuku West Exit square became a passage and a meeting penned by the media as “Folk Guerilla” was obliterated by the riot police, a greater part of the collected photos were taken in 1968.
At that time, the first place editors would take me to was a bar called Unicon, near Shinjuku Gyoen. After that, we would go barhopping to places like DUG (which is still going strong even today),Trevi, DIG, Mokuba, Pit In, Bizarre, places where modern jazz was playing. The time of the Red Tents of Juro Kara near Hanazono shrine, of the avant-garde films of ATG, the performance art happenings on the streets, before they became pedestrian zones…
It was a time when hippies stoned off their mind would cross your path, and “underground” was the word you’d hear in the streets of Shinjuku.
When it was not Shibuya or Shimokitazawa, not Kichijoji but Shinjuku where culture was taking place.
Days like these continued, until one night, a huge riot took place in the Shinjuku area. The 10.21 International Anti-War Day. While being jostled with the crowd, the once abstract Vietnam War and its consequences became a tangible reality which I experienced with my own body.
In the Shinjuku of 1968, you can see an entire era reflected.
(Excerpt from the afterword)
more books by Hitomi Watanabe
more books tagged »seventies« | >> see all
-
Shafts
by Noriaki Yokosuka
sold -
Sadistic Play of Bondage
by Kishin Shinoyama
sold -
Image Shop Camp Vol - Spécial Arles ! (PINK SILKSCREEN VERSION)
by Collective
Euro 100 -
Our Lives and Our Children : Photographs Taken Near the Rocky ...
by Robert Adams
sold -
Olele Olala
by Kishin Shinoyama
sold -
Nanika attaka nakattaka (if something happened or not )
by Yohji Jikihara
price on request
more books tagged »japanese« | >> see all
-
Orphée (Signed)
by Tokyo Rumando
sold -
Sentimental na Tabi: Fuyu no Tabi
by Nobuyoshi Araki
Euro 75 -
Ciel Tombé (with The Astrologer by Sylvie Germain )
by Naoya Hatakeyama
sold -
West Side Rendezvous (Signed)
by Katsu Naito
sold -
Misho (LTD & SIGNED)
by Emi Anrakuji
sold -
Rasen Kaigan
by Lieko Shiga
Euro 250
more books tagged »shinjuku« | >> see all
-
Shinjuku Lost Child (Signed)
by Seung-woo Yang
sold -
Hot Dog Shinjuku 1999-2000
by Katsumi Watanabe
sold -
Shinjuku Gunto Denden
by Katsumi Watanabe
sold -
Vulnerability (signed Edt of 5 )
by Jean-Marc Caimi
sold
more books tagged »town« | >> see all
-
Buenos Aires Buenos Aires
by Alicia d'Amico & Sara Facio
sold -
Night Crawler 1995 2010 (signed)
by Takehiko Nakafuji
sold -
White Noise (signed)
by Takehiko Nakafuji
sold -
TOKYO : A VISION OF ITS OTHER SIDE
by Masatoshi Naito
sold -
Tokyo Silence (Signed)
by Yasuhiro Ogawa
sold -
Machi – Town (SiGNED)
by Yutaka Takanashi
price on request
Books from the Virtual Bookshelf josefchladek.com