Daido Moriyama: Record

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Inspired by the work of an earlier generation of Japanese photographers especially by Shomei Tomatsu & by William Klein&s seminal photographic book on New York Daido Moriyama moved from Osaka to Tokyo in the early sixties to become a photographer He became the leading exponent of a fierce new photographic style that corresponded perfectly to the abrasive & intense climate of Tokyo during a period of great social upheaval His black & white pictures were marked by fierce contrast & fragmentary even scratched frames which concealed his virtuoso printing Between June 1972 & July 1973 he produced his own magazine publication Kiroku which was then referred to as Record It became a diaristic journal of his work as it developed Ten years ago he was able to resume publication of Record which gradually expanded in extent To date he has published thirty issues a number of them including colour The publication of Record as a book enables work from all thirty issues to be edited into a single sequence punctuated by Moriyama&s own text as it appeared in the magazines It used to be assumed that Moriyama&s peculiarly Japanese style was tied to his Tokyo roots The evidence of the last ten years demonstrates that Moriyama a restless world traveller has been able to apply his unique vision to northern Europe southern France the cities of Florence London Barcelona Taipei Hong Kong New York & Los Angeles as well as to the alleys of Osaka & the landscape of Hokkaido The book ends in Afghanistan