RECORD No.25

Record #25

by Daidō Moriyama

ぼくにとって沖縄とは、仮にさまざまな内訳があるにせよ、きわめて個人的に照射され内包される< 光> のありようだといってもいい。那覇の路地裏に当たる光。とあるビーチ全体を包む光、基地脇の大通りを照らす光。城址の丘にそそぐ光。と、ぼくが目のあたりにする沖縄の光は、どこか特有の質を伴って知覚されてくるのだ。(「記録 第25 号」より　著者コメント)沖縄県立博物館・美術館にて開催された森山大道「終わりなき旅　北/ 南」展(2014) の新作撮影のため、度々訪れた沖縄で撮影された作品にて構成。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。I visited Okinawa for the first time in 1974.

153 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 1, 2014

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.