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For the first time, Daido Moriyama explains his entire approach to photography

This 2023 reprint of Daido Moriyama's "Farewell Photography" brings back one of the master photographer's most influential and controversial works. This edition is based on the 2019 publication of "Farewell Photography" by Getsuyosha (itself based on the original publication by Shashin Hyoronsha in 1972) but features a different binding and a more compact size. Created at a pivotal moment in Moriyama's career, "Farewell Photography" represents a radical exploration of the limits of photography and expression-uncompromising, invasive, and intimate. Fifty years after its original publication, the series has lost none of its impact. This edition includes the full version of the Hilltop Hotel interview between Daido Moriyama and Takuma Nakahira (in Japanese only) as well as Daido Moriyama's afterword (originally written for the 2019 edition; in Japanese & English).

"Provocative Relationship - Daido Moriyama x Takuma Nakahira" is the official catalog for the exhibition of the same title, held at The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama from July 15 to September 24, 2023. Both the catalog and the exhibition represent an invaluable attempt to trace the artistic relationship between Daido Moriyama and Takuma Nakahira, as well as the complex and fundamental ways in which they have influenced each other. Moriyama and Nakahira first met through Shomei Tomatsu in the 1960s, worked together on the highly-influential "Provoke" magazine, and continued to stimulate each other's creative and intellectual approach until Nakahira's death in 2015. In addition to photographs documenting the exhibition itself, the book explores their relationship in seven chronological chapters. The book concludes with several texts written by both photographers, as well as an edited version of the infamous Hilltop Hotel interview between Moriyama and Nakahira. Please note that all text is only included in Japanese.

Originally published in 1968 - the year which also saw the launch of the influential Provoke magazine - the book already demonstrates Moriyama's trademark visual style. On invitation of Japanese writer Shuji Terayama, Moriyama began photographing members of a traveling theater group, adding shots of dwarf show dancers, strip clubs, street performers, fetuses in formaldehyde containers and other motifs. "Japan, A Photo Theater" concludes with detailed information regarding the photographs' creation and their first appearances in Japanese magazines.

Daido Moriyama's photobook "Letters to N" is a personal message from Moriyama to his good friend, the late Takuma Nakahira. Shot with a digital camera in the Shonan region, including the towns of Kamakura, Zushi, and Hayama, Moriyama drafts a visual letter composed of everyday scenes in black and white to his dear companion. The book includes an afterword by Moriyama and a series of letters to Takuma written thirty years ago, after Takuma suffered a loss of memory, and originally published in a literary magazine (all text included in Japanese & in English translation). "I know you love the summer, so I wonder, are you still visiting Zushi and the beach there? Are you still chasing fish around the cliffs at Hayama? When you're in the water, to me you almost looked like a fish yourself. Are you still spending time at the sea where we used to go for a dive almost every day?"? from Daido Moriyama's letter to Nakahira from January 1988

"The dog in me tells me to seek out bustling streets, the cat tells me to enter every back-alley I come across, and the bug in me drags me towards the red-light quarters. Copying the world from the view of a lowlife, particularly loitering through Tokyo every day, I feel that this is all the meaning there is to my life and my taking photographs. " (from Daido Moriyama's afterword)"K" (from the Japanese "kei" for "view, vista") collects Daido Moriyama's latest photographs, fragments of the city, its corners and crannies of the city, the figures that populate it.

"The title of this book, Dog and Mesh Tights came to me suddenly one day recently as I was walking through the streets of the Ikebukuro district of Tokyo. Most of the subjects depicted here are those that I spotted on the streets, on the exterior walls of buildings or lying in the gutter during the course of my everyday life, things that tend to remain unnoticed, obscure corners of largely deserted back alleys, or human figures that linger inconspicuously - things that catch my eye but generally remain unremarked. In a way I think they can be said to resemble the world as seen through the eye of a dog" - Daido Moriyama

Daido Moriyama's "Paris Plus" is a small hardcover publication containing 311 images within its 504 pages. Published in 2013 by Getsuyosha, "Paris Plus" is a visually condensed photographic narrative of several visits Moriyama has made to the city in between the years 1988, 1990 and 2003. The images of Paris bound within the pages of this photobook is as much a documentation of the city's people and landscapes as much as it is a remnant of Moriyama's fragmented experiences and engagements with the city throughout his life. The black and white images run through from page to page, echoing the shutter's lens as much as it does the photographing eye. What is evident within this small hardcover publication is a record of a series of moments, capturing a visualized experience of a city space and its individuals caught within movement and frozen within the exposed black and white film within Moriyama's frame.

Brings together the best work of the worlds greatest photographers in an attractive format and at an easily affordable price. This book contains some sixty full-page reproductions, together with a critical introduction and a full bibliography.