Hajime Sawatari
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is a renowned Japanese
photographer. He is known for his fashion
and advertising photography as well as his nudes of girls and women. He earned his degree from Nihon University
's College of Art with a major in photography.
Sawatari won the Japan Photograph Association's Nendo Sho (Annual Award) of 1973 for his book Nadia, which visually documents his romantic relationship with an Italian woman by this name. He won their 1979 award for Alice from the Sea. In 1990 he won the Kodansha Publication Culture Award in Photography for Taste of Honey.
His photographs have been exhibited by many institutions including Ginza Wacoal Hall and the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
.
His book Alice, an interpretation of Lewis Carroll
's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
, is controversial for its full-frontal nudity of a prepubescent girl.
Japanese people
The are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...
photographer. He is known for his fashion
Fashion photography
Fashion photography is a genre of photography devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items. Fashion photography is most often conducted for advertisements or fashion magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, or Elle...
and advertising photography as well as his nudes of girls and women. He earned his degree from Nihon University
Nihon University
Nihon University is the largest university in Japan. Akiyoshi Yamada, the minister of justice, founded Nihon Law School in October 1889....
's College of Art with a major in photography.
Sawatari won the Japan Photograph Association's Nendo Sho (Annual Award) of 1973 for his book Nadia, which visually documents his romantic relationship with an Italian woman by this name. He won their 1979 award for Alice from the Sea. In 1990 he won the Kodansha Publication Culture Award in Photography for Taste of Honey.
His photographs have been exhibited by many institutions including Ginza Wacoal Hall and the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
The in Tokyo, Japan, is the foremost museum collecting and exhibiting contemporary Japanese art.This Tokyo museum is also known by the English acronym MOMAT...
.
His book Alice, an interpretation of Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll , was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the...
's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures...
, is controversial for its full-frontal nudity of a prepubescent girl.
Books by Hajime Sawatari
- Nadia: Mori no Ningyokan. Japan: Camera Mainichi / Mainichishinbun-sha, 1973. Reprint edition: Japan: Asahi Sonorama, 1977. Excerpt edition: Nadia in Sicily 1971 Ricochet, 2004
- Alice / Arisu. Tokyo, Japan, 1973
- Seiji Ozawa. Japan: Shueisha, 1975
- Alice from the Sea. Tokyo, Japan: Kawade Shobo Shin-sha, 1979
- Taste of Honey. IPC, 1990 (with Amy Yamada)
- A Girl. Japan: Hysteric Glamour, 2000