WATANABE Katsumi

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WATANABE Katsumi 渡辺 克巳 (1941.10.17- ) Morioka, Iwate Pref.

Noted photographer of Tokyo's Shinjuku area.

Education Graduated from high school in Morioka in 1961.

Career Office assistant at the Mainichi Shimbun Newspapers Morioka Bureau 1957-1961.

Employed at the Tojo Kaikan photo dept. in 1962. Quit in 1967 and turned freelance photographer. Becomes a street photographer for hire in Shinjuku's Kabuki-cho taking pictures of nude strippers, yakuza, gay boys, etc., for money. Operated a photo studio from 1976 to 1981.

Awards Camera Mainichi Album Award, 1973; Award of the Year, 1998, Photographic Society of Japan. (2001.6.29)

Book reviews Shinjuku 1965-97

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