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Watanabe Katsumi: Gangs of Kabukicho Paperback - 2006
by Watanabe Katsumi (Photographer); Iizawa Kotaro ()
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- Title Watanabe Katsumi: Gangs of Kabukicho
- Author Watanabe Katsumi (Photographer); Iizawa Kotaro ()
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Bilingual
- Pages 160
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Roth Horowitz, New York:
- Date 2006
- ISBN 9780971548039 / 097154803X
- Weight 1.95 lbs (0.88 kg)
- Dimensions 11.5 x 8 x 0.7 in (29.21 x 20.32 x 1.78 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 779.209
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GANGS OF KABUKICHO
by Kotaro,Iizawa author and Katsumi, Watanabe photographs
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New York: PPP Editions / Andrew Roth Inc, 2006. 1st edition. Wraps. Near Fine. Wantanabe Katsumi. 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…
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GANGS OF KABUKICHO
by Kotaro,Iizawa author and Katsumi, Watanabe photographs
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- Fine
- first
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- Used - Fine
- Edition
- 1st edition
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780971548039 / 097154803X
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Rougemont, North Carolina, United States
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New York: PPP Editions / Andrew Roth Inc, 2006. 1st edition. Wraps. Fine. Wantanabe Katsumi. 1st edition, 2006. Fine. 4to., unpaginated, black & white images on thick paper. Bound in publishers illustrated stiff wraps with publishers clear acrylic sleeve. In publishers original shrink wrap, never opened. 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…
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