Record No. 61 - Daido Moriyama

Although now in his late 80s, Daido Moriyama continues to produce evocative snapshot photographs taken in the streets of Tokyo, Yokohama, and the surrounding area. Published several times a year, the photobook/zine hybrid “Record” has been a regular outlet for his photography since its reboot in 2006. In this 61st issue, Moriyama alternates landscape shots with close-ups of strangers, snapshots of street scenes, storefronts, industrial artefacts, and uncanny photos of ravens.

“I do some work at my office once every week, and when I arrived there yesterday, I found a copy of a massive photobook titled Moriyama: Quartet, which my London-based old friend Mark Holborn had put together from a selection of my previous works. Wait a minute.. Are these mine? There were of course quite a lot of old pictures, and some of them were taken such a long time ago that I wasn’t even sure I was the one who had made them. Now that I looked at them, they seemed to me like photos taken by some anonymous person. I continued to browse through the book and look at the countless images, and suddenly froze the moment I recognized Takuma Nakahira in one shot. There he stood, setting up his tripod on a street, and shooting while triking a pose like the inimitable Eugene Atget himself.”
― from Daido Moriyama’s afterword

first edition

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