Moriyama Daido's Tokyo: Ongoing

First edition of this exhibition catalogue for the large-scale retrospective exhibition “Moriyama Daido's Tokyo: Ongoing” held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (June 2 – September 22, 2020).

First impression 

Small format hardback in fine condition 

Signed by Daido Moriyama to front end page

Some very minor wear to extremities of boards 

No internal markings, binding firm, pages clean

Text in Japanese and English

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This compact, sturdy publication – designed by Satoshi Machiguchi – contains all works on display as part of the exhibition and includes images (monochrome & in color) from Moriyama’s ongoing “Record” series, “Pretty Woman” (2007), “K” (2017), and “Tokyo Boogie Woogie” (2018). Similar to the exhibition, the book focuses on the theme of Tokyo seen through the never-restless lens of the Japanese master photographer. In addition to a foreword by Daido Moriyama, the book also contains essays by writer Akiko Otake and photo critic Yoshiaki Kai, shedding light on Moriyama’s photographic practice and his legacy (all texts included in Japanese and English translation).