RECORD No. 32

Record #32

by Daidō Moriyama

2016年夏、神戸で初の写真展となる兵庫県立美術館森山大道写真展「仮想都市～増殖する断片」に合わせ刊行された。森山大道が半世紀も前から連日のように通った神戸の街。当時の記憶の街路を辿りながら、今の神戸のリアリティとアクチュアリティにレンズを向けた幾多のカットから構成される一冊。森山大道(もりやま だいどう)／写真家。1938年10月10日。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し、世界的にも高い評価を得る。近年の写真集に『NAGISA』『LABYRINTH』（Akio Nagasawa Publishing）、『犬と網タイツ』『Osaka』『絶対平面都市』(月曜社)など。 was released in the summer of 2016, right at the beginning of Daido’s first solo exhibition in Kobe “ Increasing Pieces” at Kobe Prefectural Museum of Art.This issue contains the images of the city of Kobe, where Daido frequently came across half century ago, when he was young.Tracing back the memories of Kobe while pointing his camera at the reality and actuality of the city today, the scenery naturally begins to overlap with the image of Kobe that had engraved itself on his heart and mind.Daido Moriyama / PhotographerBorn October 10th, 1938. His style of grainy, high-contrast images that came to be referred to as are, “bure, boke” (grainy, blurry, out-of-focus) made an impact on the realm of photography worldwide. Latest works are “NAGISA” ”LABYRINTH”(Akio Nagasawa Gallery), “Dog and Mesh Tights” “ OSAKA” “Zettai Heimen Toshi”(Getsuyo-sha) etc.

153 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 16, 2016

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.