RECORD No.12

Record #12

by Daidō Moriyama

いうまでもないが、写真は、すべからく現実のコピーであり、世界についてのフェイクである。リアリズムもアクチュアリティーも、全てこの内のことだ。アンリ・ベルグソンは、世界は既に全き写され尽くしている、といった意味のことを述べていて、カメラを持つ日頃の感覚としてぼくも同意である。カメラに記された∞（インフィニティ）とは、いうまでもなくメビュウスの環のことである。そう、世界は有史以前より、連綿と無数の人々の眼ざしによって、視＝写され、果てしのないコピーを成してきたのだ。そのオリジナリティなき行為こそが唯一写真の強度なのだ。（「記録 第12号」より　著者コメント）2009年8月に刊行された森山大道の私家版写真誌｢記録 第12号｣を電子書籍化。三沢、青森、東京。雪、雨、晴れ。蠅のように飛び回り、野良犬のようにうろつき回る。森山大道がコピーする、そこにある風景。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

52 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 8, 2009

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.