Publisher/晩聲社

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"Shinjuku Gunto Den Den" is a photo collection by Katsumi Watanabe, one of Japan's leading photographers. He became interested in photography while working as a waiter at a newspaper company, and after moving to Tokyo he learned studio photography at the Tojo Kaikan Photography Department. He was influenced by a senior photographer who was a traveling photographer in Shinjuku, and went freelance after that. He bought an enlarger with his small retirement money, and while wandering around Shinjuku at night, he took portraits of people for 200 yen for a set of three. Katsumi Watanabe endured hunger and kept costs down, photographing homeless people, sex workers, gays, delinquents, and yakuza, and was fascinated by the theater of life woven by people full of individuality, and continued to depict the drama of Shinjuku throughout his life. "A town where secret things come to the surface, and then disappear like bubbles," "A town where something new is done in the shadows, and then it soon comes to the surface again." Shinjuku is a strange, attractive, harsh, and yet kind town. This book is a sequel to the first photo book "Shinjuku Guntoden" published in 1973, and was published in 1982 as a sequel to the second photo book. This book is one of the Yagenbura selections from Banseisha, designed by designer Kohei Sugiura.