MORIYAMA, Daido - Kagero and Colors

Hintergrundinformation

"This beautiful, text-free, collection of full-color color and black-and-white photographs in Daido MORIYAMA's photo volume 'Kagero and Colors' brings together a variety of previously unseen color nude images along with the collection Daido MORIYAMA published back in 1972, in his now highly sought-after, fourth monograph 'Kagerou.

Content

In the photo volume 'Kagero and Colors', Daido MORIYAMA captures 'bondage' and nudity with a self-described 'samurai tenderness' - a mood, an intimacy, and yet also a distance - as if the artist had taken the photos against his will. The stagings are not careful. They are rushed, immediate, and mysteriously an insider. Even the knots seem to have been hastily tied. Each of the 60 photos collected here suggests that something has happened or is about to happen-something angry, resonant, or eagerly anticipated. There are no smiling models, no romantic conquests, rarely even a face, and certainly no hint of playfulness. It is rather a collection of wishes, of mothers, sisters and lovers." (freely translated, © google)

About Japanese photographer, Daido MORIYAMA (b.1938, in Kobe)

Photobooks by and on the work of Daido MORIYAMA