Daido Moriyama - Ango

Daido Moriyama
Ango

Published by Bookshop M, 2017
Size 24 x 16.5 cm
188 pages, 57 images
Hardcover
Language: English
ISBN978-4-908647-09-3

“In the old days, before the capital moved from Kyoto to Tokyo, cherry blossoms were considered a frightening sight. No one considered them a sign of beauty. […] Without a trace of human life underneath, a cherry in full bloom becomes a frightening sight.”

The fifth installment in Match & Company’s “Japanese Photography x Contemporary Literature” series. In “Daido Moriyama: Ango,” Daido Moriyama’s eerie photographs of cherry blossoms are set against Ango Sakaguchi’s famous short story “In the Forest, Under the Cherry Blossoms.” Moriyama and Sakaguchi’s “demonic beauty of cherry blossoms” is transformed into a pitch-black photobook of bottomless loneliness, emptiness, and dangerous seduction.