Daido Moriyama - Farewell Photography

Daido Moriyama
Farewell Photography

Published by Powershovel Books, 2006
Size: 23 x 29 cm
276 Pages
Softcover
Languages: Japanese and English
Good condition - marks on the transparent box.
ISBN 4-434-07524-1

"A revised reprint of Moriyama's original and now highly sought-after classic 1972 publication. Inspired by William Klein's blurry New York street photography, Andy Warhol's silkscreen productions, and Jack Kerouac's free-spirited travel writing, Daido Moriyama developed a radical new approach to image-making. These shattered, raw, and blurred black-and-white photographs set the stage for what would become his trademark style. No prints or negatives exist for the material depicted in the original Farewell Photography, so this reprint was produced using a copy of the original book as source material. Larger than the original (and with no text at all), this version places even greater emphasis on Moriyama's frenetic, dynamic approach to image-making. And the choice to reprint the reprinted material (for, after all, the original book was still a reprint of the photographs themselves) raises interesting critical questions. The aesthetic decisions involved reflect both the development of photography as a medium and the recent interest in the history of photography books – stimulated in large part by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger’s History of the Photobook. More than just a reprint of a classic of Japanese photography, it is a reinterpretation.” – editor’s writings