{"product_id":"the-day-the-dam-collapses-9780989798112","title":"The Day the Dam Collapses","description":"\u003cp\u003ePhotographer Hiroshi Watanabe's digital pictures range from seemingly ordinary details of quotidian life to poetic visual metaphors. \"Ominous and touching,\" \u003ci\u003eThe Day the Dam Collapses\u003c\/i\u003e (sparked by the birth of the artist's son) paints the cycles of life as fleeting, fragile, and devastatingly ephemeral.--\u003ci\u003eHyperallergic\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan in 1951, \u003cb\u003eHiroshi Watanabe\u003c\/b\u003e graduated from the Department of Photography of Nihon University in 1975. Watanabe moved to Los Angeles, where he worked as a production coordinator for Japanese television commercials and later co-founded a Japanese coordination services company. Watanabe obtained an MBA from the UCLA Anderson Business School in 1993. Two years later, however, his earlier interest in photography was revived, and Watanabe started to travel worldwide, extensively photographing what he found intriguing at each moment and place. As of 2000, Watanabe has worked full-time at photography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Daylight Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780989798112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.70h x 7.70w x 0.60d","brand":"Hiroshi Watanabe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38350255292597,"sku":"9780989798112","price":38.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_920ebbd7-380d-4b40-9540-4679b5510574.jpg?v=1611644187","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-day-the-dam-collapses-9780989798112","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}