ARTIFACTS-EN app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Hibiku Inc.
First release : 13 Jan 2013
App size: 19.16 Mb
ARTIFACTS - "Things" from Japanese Internment Camps will be the second application for iPad by Hiroshi Watanabe who was born in Japan and has been living in the US for many years.
He photographed “things” that people made and used in the internment camps during the World War II. He saw the history and emotions of the Japanese Americans in these artifacts.
•There are 71 black & white photographs
•Ayako Mie, a staff writer for the Japan Times, wrote an essay on the subject.
•This app is viewable in vertical position only. This design makes easy to flow through pages and is most aesthetically suited for Hiroshi Watanabes square format images.
About Hiroshi Watanabe
His work has been published and exhibited around the world, and his work is in the permanent collections of six art museums in the United States.
He donated the cover photograph for Ten Years On album, a collection of songs in remembrance of September 11 in support for 911 Memorial. http7/www.tenyearsonalbum.com/
His website: http://www.hiroshiwatanabe.com/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hiroshi.watanabel