Background information
"Published in September, 2009, this is the first of a two-book set collecting Daido MORIYAMA's major magazine projects over a 10 year period from 1965 to 1974. This particular volume, 'Nippon Gekijou. Magazine Works 1965-1970', includes the following series: 'Yokosuka' (1965), 'Atami' (1966), 'Nippon Gekijou' (1967), 'On the Road' (1969), and and the 12-issue serialized 'Accident' (1969). In total these are '...two collections of work that Daido MORIYAMA published in various photography magazines from 1965 to 1974 (the 2nd volume is called 'Nanika e no Tabi. Magazine Works 1971-1974'). These two books together, 'Nippon Gekijou' & 'Nanika e no Tabi', collect over 90 different series from a time when seemingly you could not pick up an issue of one of the two major photo monthlies of the time — 'Camera Mainichi' and 'Asahi Camera' — and not find a Daido MORIYAMA photo essay in them. I fully admit that sometimes the Daido MORIYAMA publishing juggernaut tends to overwhelm in its recent ARAKI-like incarnation, but in this case these two companion volumes are to me completely justified.
Content
By reproducing the essays exactly as they were first published, with their original layout, typography, and captions, we get a unique insight into how the Provoke aesthetic of are, bure, bokeh took shape in the mind of its dominant proponent, and what’s more, the books bring us closer to experiencing the vibrant experimentation that characterized Japanese photography at the time." (© Japan exposures, 2009)
About the Japanese photographer, Daido MORIYAMA (b. 1938, in Osaka)
Photo books by and on the work of Daido MORIYAMA
- Format
- Pb. with obi belt (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 26 x 3,5 cm., 365 pp., 410 ills. (365 b/w ills., 45 ills. in color), text language: Japanese