RECORD No.21

Record #21

by Daidō Moriyama

なんと言ってもニューヨークでのぼくの一番のときめきは、巨大なビルボードのジャングルとでもいうべきか、夕刻のタイムズ・スクエアの、めくるめく光芒のド真ん中に身を包まれた一瞬であり、アドレナリンを感覚する、もっともセクシーな時間である。（「記録 第21号」より　著者コメント）2012年4月に刊行された森山大道の私家版写真誌｢記録 第21号｣を電子書籍化。2011年秋に訪れたニューヨークでのデジタルカラー作品集。カラフルでセクシーなスナップで切り取られた秋のニューヨーク。光の引力に吸い込まれ、うっとりしながら歩む大道の視線。森山大道（もりやま だいどう）／写真家。1938年10月10日、大阪府生まれ。岩宮武二スタジオを経て細江英公の助手となり、1964年より独立。ハイコントラストで粒子の粗い“アレ・ブレ・ボケ”と称される独自のスタイルを確立するなど、既存の写真表現をラディカルに挑発し続け、世界的にも高い評価を得る。「量のない質はない」というポリシーのもと、現在でも膨大な数のストリートスナップを撮り続けている。近年の写真集に『NAGISA』『LABYRINTH』（Akio Nagasawa Publishing）、『カラー』『モノクロ』（月曜社）、『実験室からの眺め』（河出書房新社）など。Last November I went to New York for th

76 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 10, 2012

About the author

Daidō Moriyama (Japanese: 森山 大道, Hepburn: Moriyama Daidō, born October 10, 1938) is a Japanese photographer best known for his black-and-white street photography and association with the avant-garde photography magazine Provoke.

Moriyama began his career as an assistant to photographer Eikoh Hosoe, a co-founder of the avant-garde photo cooperative Vivo, and made his mark with his first photobook Japan: A Photo Theater, published in 1968. His formative work in the 1960s boldly captured the darker qualities of urban life in postwar Japan in rough, unfettered fashion, filtering the rawness of human experience through sharply tilted angles, grained textures, harsh contrast, and blurred movements through the photographer's wandering gaze. Many of his well-known works from the 1960s and 1970s are read through the lenses of post-war reconstruction and post-Occupation cultural upheaval.

Moriyama continued to experiment with the representative possibilities offered by the camera in his 1969 Accident series, which was serialized over one year in the photo magazine Asahi Camera, in which he deployed his camera as a copying machine to reproduce existing media images. His 1972 photobook Farewell Photography, which was accompanied by an interview with his fellow Provoke photographer Takuma Nakahira, presents his radical effort to dismantle the medium.

Although the photobook is a favored format of presentation among Japanese photographers, Moriyama was particularly prolific: he has produced more than 150 photobooks since 1968.