Hiroshi Watanabe was born in Sapporo, Japan. He graduated from Department of Photography, College of Art, at Nihon University in 1975. He moved to Los Angeles after graduation and became involved in the production of TV commercials, eventually working as a producer. He later established his own production company and produced numerous commercials. He received an MBA degree from UCLA Business School in 1993. In 1995 his passion for photography rekindled, and since then he has traveled worldwide extensively, photographing what he finds intriguing at that moment and place. In 2000 he closed the production company in order to devote himself entirely to the art and became a full time photographer.
His work has been published around the world, and has been exhibited in many galleries across the United States and Japan.
Awards
1973 Advertising Photographers Association, Japan
1978 Los Angeles Times
1996 Western Art Directors Club
2000 Advertising Photographers of America, Los Angeles
2000 London Photographic Awards
2001 Advertising Photographers of America, Los Angeles
2002 Print Center
2002 Center for Photographic Art
2002 Photo Review
2003 International Photography Awards
2003 Photo Review
2003 Advertising Photographers of America, Los Angeles
2004 Black & White Spider Awards
2005 Photo Review
2005 Black & White Spider Awards
2006 Photolucida Critical Mass Book Award
2007 Photo City Sagamihara Awards
2008 Center Project competition First Prize
2009 Hearst 8x10 Photography Biennial
Collections
His work is in the permanent collections of following museums:
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Santa Monica Pier 2000
Houston Museum of Fine Arts
Ellis Island 2, New York 1999
White Terns, Midway Atoll 1999
El Arbolito Park, Quito, Ecuador 2002
Patient ES, Schizophrenia, San Lazaro Psychiatric Hospital 2002
Chikako Suga, Matsuo Kabuki 2003
Yuki Nonaka, Matsuo Kabuki 2003
Musume's Head, Ena Bunraku 2004
Yoroboshi, Naito Clan 2004
George Eastman House
Vietnam War Memorial, Washington D.C. 1999
Church, San Lazaro Psychiatric Hospital 2002
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
El Arbolito Park, Quito, Ecuador. 2002
Vietnam War Memorial, Washington D.C. 1999
Edison Pastillo, Ecuador. 2000
The book contains an original short story by Richard Curtis Hauschild. First printing was 1000 copies....
Parmi les différents courants de la photographie, certains thèmes sont transversaux et intemporels. Il en est ainsi de la nature morte. Des photographes aussi variés que Josef Sudek, Robert Mapplethorpe, Irving Penn ou Edward Weston ont donné ses lettres de noblesse à ce genre.
© Hiroshi Watanabe
Night Tulip,Central Park,New York
Série Perennial Scenes
Cet été, les trois galeries de la rue des Jardins Saint-Paul : la galerie Basia Embiricos, la galerie Photo12 et la Galerie Du 10 ouvriront leurs portes à des photographes, designers et plasticiens puisant leur inspiration aux sources de la nature, des plantes et des fleurs.
C’est à l’été 2014 que cette exposition collective verra le jour pour la première fois mais elle ...
Hiroshi Watanabe
Time Travels
Hiroshi Watanabe’s photographs were taken on his extensive travels through Japan, the United States of America, South America, Asia and Europe.
Micheko Gallery presents "Time Travels", a cross section of his B/W-photographs. Timelessness is what connects Watanabe’s photographic work. The viewer cannot easily put a time on his images. These photographs convey an ageless moment in life that unites the past and the present and brings us in touch with our history.
What motivates Hiroshi Watanabe is best described by himself: „I go to places that captivate and intrigue me. I am interested in what humans do. I seek to capture people, traditions, and locales that first and foremost are of personal interest. I immerse myself with information on the pla...
L' AD-Galerie présente la collection de portraits du photographe Hiroshi Watanabe à partir du samedi 26 mai 2012.
Cinq portfolios consacrés au portrait constituent le thème de l'exposition d'Hiroshi Watanabe. Trois portfolios représentent un témoignage direct de la culture théâtrale japonaise (Sarumashi, Noh et Kabuki).
Un quatrième portfolio en lien direct avec la société japonaise est consacré aux poupées pour adultes (Love point). Le dernier portfolio porte sur une tradition culturelle européenne, les masques du carnaval vénitien.
© Hiroshi Watanabe, Alvise D'Ambrosi as Capitano (Silhouette), Comedy of Double Meaning
Sarumawashi,...
Bonni Benrubi Gallery is pleased to announce a group exhibition, GLOBETROTTING. Presenting new work by the gallery’s stable of contemporary photographers alongside classic mid-century work, this exhibition invites the viewer on a voyage around the world. Each photographer’s work on view offers a unique perspective and approach to age-old themes of travel, discovery and wanderlust.
Highlights include Doug Hall, a new gallery artist, who not only photographs soaring urban landscapes and interior spaces from around the world, but also reflects on tourists as they enjoy holiday moments at well-known attractions such as the Pantheon. New color work by Abelardo Morell brings the Italian landscape inside; infusing physical context and enchantment into the interior spaces he transforms into room-sized Camera Obscu...
Photographe établi à Tokyo et Los Angeles, Hiroshi Watanabe capture, depuis 1995, avec son boîtier 6x6 les images qui l’intriguent : symboles des Etats-Unis, représentations politiques en Corée du Nord, regards de patients d’un asile psychiatrique, masques japonais…. Toutes ses images sont traitées avec une grande rigueur, marquées par une belle maîtrise des sels d’argent. Le travail d’Hiroshi Watanabe ne s’inscrit pourtant pas dans le schéma d’une image parfaitement lisse. Ses photos sont à chaque fois une invitation à revenir à l’essence des choses et des autres, gage certain de l’aptitude du photographe à questionner la frontière entre la réalité et sa rep...