Represented

Mitsutoshi Hanaga羽永光利

Born in Otsuka, Tokyo, Japan, 1933; died in 1999. Graduated from the Art Department of Bunka Gakuin in 1958. Mitsutoshi Hanaga went through the turbulent times from the late 1950s to 1980s when Japanese society experienced a drastic transition, and he left behind a huge amount of photographs throughout his lifetime. While living in postwar Japan, which was burdened with various contradictions and social issues, Hanaga continued to record the reality of diverse scenes such as avant-garde art, underground theater, current events, the pollution issue, the student movement, Butoh, and the commune movement through photography from a perspective of the weak and outcast. The existence of Hanaga, who continued to focus on struggling youths seeking their meaning of existence by close contact, has legendarily been remembered and thought of as "an artist behind a system." He is most notable for his photographic documentations of Hi-Red Center (Jiro Takamatsu, Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi), Tetsumi Kudo, Ushio Shinohara, Akaji Maro (Dairakudakan) and many others.

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