Moriyama book reissued

[jtk]

https://www.photoeye.com/bookstore/citation.cfm?catalog=ZJ118

Daido Moriyama became famous among young photo art fanatics (my peers) in California in the 70s... a lot of us had been pushing TriX to extremes... suddenly switched to 2475 Recording Film and Grade 6 Brovira. The rest idolized Ansel Adams, settled in suburbs, raised families and retired..

http://www.photoeyeeditions.com/Index.cfm/publication.index

 

[Dali]

Good to know. DM books are not always easy to find.

 

[awty]

Oh man what a great photographer, I love a person who can take a photo and edit it into such marvelous pictures.

 

[logan2z]

Saw the announcement on Instagram the other day. $125, a bit pricey but it's signed so I guess it's not too crazy. I don't own any of his books, I might take the plunge.

 

[larfe]

Be careful of those reissues, the previous of these (light and shadows?) had very unusual looks to the images... As if they were cheap scans from the negatives with a tonne of smearing type of look

 

[Oren Grad]

Good to know. DM books are not always easy to find.

You can get lots of Moriyama at Amazon, AbeBooks, the Japan Exposures book shop, or Amazon Japan, which typically has the best selection. Amazon Japan will ship books overseas - I've done it. For those who can't read any Japanese, they have some help:

https://www.amazon.co.jp/AmazonGlobal-AmazonJapan/b?ie=UTF8&node=3534638051&ref_=footer_global

For best results on Amazon Japan, search using his name written in kanji - copy this and paste it into the search tool: 森山 大道

 

[jvo]

You can get lots of Moriyama at Amazon, AbeBooks, the Japan Exposures book shop, or Amazon Japan, which typically has the best selection. Amazon Japan will ship books overseas - I've done it. For those who can't read any Japanese, they have some help:

https://www.amazon.co.jp/AmazonGlobal-AmazonJapan/b?ie=UTF8&node=3534638051&ref_=footer_global

For best results on Amazon Japan, search using his name written in kanji - copy this and paste it into the search tool: 森山 大道

now isn't that helpful!!! thanx!

 

[blockend]

Be careful of those reissues, the previous of these (light and shadows?) had very unusual looks to the images... As if they were cheap scans from the negatives with a tonne of smearing type of look

I'm a Moriyama fan but there's something contradictory about a photographer defined by a freewheeling style and a graphic visual aesthetic, being re-presented in a handsome monograph with an eyewatering price. Especially when an exquisite Steidl photobook can be had for £35-45. Takuma Nakahira and Masahisa Fukasi's work also need republishing for a modern audience, at that price it'll be well-heeled collectors and paper-sniffers only.

 

[Oren Grad]

I wanted to add that the photo-eye bookshop also has plenty of Moriyama - didn't mention it last time because their search engine was on the fritz and so the stuff would have been difficult to find. Seems back to normal now.

One thing about Moriyama is that he transitioned to digital without missing a beat, at least so far as an observer can tell. He seems just as much in his element with electric grunge as he was with silver grunge.

 

[blockend]

One thing about Moriyama is that he transitioned to digital without missing a beat, at least so far as an observer can tell.

That may be because he always envisaged the book as his chosen outlet. Not the fine print which preoccupies so many of us, but the semi-disposable look of newsprint. In truth Moriyama was a very fine printer when necessary, with one professional printer claiming he could not reproduce DM's look for exhibition. Moriyama reckons to have never bought a camera with his own money, and makes do with other people's cast-offs, so the fetishization of gear is clearly not his thing.

 

[Oren Grad]

Anyone who's interested in his stuff, just enter "Daido Moriyama interview" into the search engine of your choice. He's had plenty to say over the years about how he thinks about what he's doing.