Hajime Sawatari

Hajime Sawatari (沢渡 朔, Sawatari Hajime, born 1940) is a 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.

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• Gallery Archive2016318 410 Hajime Sawatari Nadia Akio Nagasawa Gallery Ginza
• Books by Hajime Sawatari
• References

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.

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