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Record #8
RECORD No.8
ぼくの東京暮らしもすでに47年余りとなるが、よく東京を識っているなどとは、ハシが転んでも言えたものではない。ずいぶんと、東京のあちこちを写し歩いたつもりではいても、実際は、レンコンの穴状に抜け落ちている街区がほとんどであることが、もうずうっと以前から気掛かりとなっていた。その気掛かりを、さてこれから始めてみるか、というわけである。例えば京成沿線の、立石とか青砥とか小岩とか、そのあたりから歩きはじめてみたい気がする。きっと向こう数年間は、そんなことがぼくの生きるすべになるはずだ。そしてまた、新宿に戻ろう。（「記録 第8号」より 著者コメント）34年の時を経て復刊された『記録』シリーズの復刊第3号「記録 第8号」（2007年10月刊行）を電子書籍化。3年間こだわって通ったハワイ撮影を終え、本来のテリトリーである“東京”に森山大道が帰ってきた。彼が惹かれてやまない街の匂いが、ここにある。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
52 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 1, 2007
About the author
Daidō Moriyama
291 books56 followersDaidō 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.
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.
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