Daido Moriyama
Hokkaido (Signed)
Posted by Sokyusha, 2022
Size: 29 x 21 cm
72 Pages
Softcover
Languages: Japanese and English
Housed in a handsome, sturdy silkscreened cloth cover, this 2022 publication brings together approximately 70 photographs from Daido Moriyama’s “Hokkaido” series. In 1978, during a difficult period for the artist, Moriyama spent three months in Hokkaido searching for inspiration. He began photographing almost compulsively, completing over 250 rolls with nearly 2,000 photographs. The work remained intact until 2008 and was subsequently published in several books. The photographs in “Hokkaido” are arguably among the most powerful and striking works by the Japanese master photographer.
Publisher's text.
Each of the 600 numbered copies was signed by the artist.
"At the time, I felt like an empty shell with little sense of real life inside. It was an endless loop of depression and agitation, and when this was combined with excessive use of sleeping pills that helped me look away, I found myself stuck in a dilemma that I was eager to get out of. Photography had started to slip away from me, and likewise, I was slipping away from photography… Those days of guilt came one after another, and before the summer was over, I decided to return to Tokyo. In the end, I made no progress, but what I have as evidence of my endless walks to various places are 250 rolls of used film."
- extract from the postface by Daido Moriyama (quoted from a text from 1984)