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Now that my three-year fixation on shooting Hawaii has finished and my photo collection has been published, here we are in the blazing heat of August and I can finally take a little rest. I'm sure there will be all kinds of reactions to the Hawaii collection but at least I feel that a burden has been lifted from my shoulders.
Even though I'd really just like to spend about a month spacing out, I can't really do that for various reasons, so I have to wander about here and there like a cockroach scuttling around the damn hot streets of Tokyo. And even though my inner voice tells me "you should be grateful you have things to do at all," on the other hand, there's another voice complaining "oh no, oh no." I guess I just got what I asked for. So here I am, at my age, in this situation.
Since I've finished with Hawaii, one would think that for the foreseeable future, I would be aiming my camera back on my main territory of Japan, but it won't work out that way. I won't be dead and done with my foreign shooting until I meet prior commitments to walk the streets of São Paulo, Brazil and Mexico City. Of course I have an interest in shooting these cities and good reasons, as well as strong feelings for those places, but at the same time, I also feel the urge to hurry up and shoot on Japanese soil.
Putting my upcoming work in Mexico City and São Paulo aside for the meantime, Tokyo is the place I feel most attracted to right now. For several years, in a completely natural, even inevitable way, Tokyo has emerged in the heart of my mind as my next target. Just around the time that the Hawaii collection was being edited, I experienced a feeling close to absolute certitude telling me that if I were to produce another photo album as part of my routine work, it would have to be Tokyo. In my plan, I would head for Shinjuku, which never ceases to command attention from my camera and I, and then expand my scope, first following the outskirts of Tokyo, then gradually winding my way back to the urban areas in a spiral movement, shooting as I go, finally returning to the streets of Shinjuku at the end of the journey.
Though I've already lived some 47 years in Tokyo, I could hardly say that I really know the city well. Even though I have the impression that my camera and I have trekked quite a lot through Tokyo, shooting here and there, I've long had the uneasy feeling that my coverage of most neighborhoods has more holes in it than Swiss cheese. I hope that such a project will allow me to appease that feeling. For example, I'd like to begin by walking around Tateishi, Aoto or Koiwa along the Keisei Railway. Yes, that's probably the way I'll be making a living a few years down the line. And then, I'II probably return to Shinjuku once again.
– from afterwords by Daido Moriyama
- Book Size
- 280 x 220 x 2 mm
- Pages
- 48 pages
- Printing
- softcover
- Publication Date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Akio Nagasawa Publishing
Daido MORIYAMA
森山大道
Born 1938 in Osaka. After working as an assistant for photographers Takeji Iwamiya and Eikoh Hosoe, he went independent in 1964. He has been publishing his works in photography magazines among others, and received a New Artist Award from the Japan Photo Critics Association for Japan: A Photo Theater in 1967. Between 1968 and ’70 he was involved in the photo fanzine Provoke, and his style of grainy, high-contrast images that came to be referred to as “are, bure, boke” (grainy, blurry, out-of-focus) made an impact on the realm of photography. Solo shows at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain in Paris solidified Moriyama’s worldwide reputation, and in 2012, he became the first Japanese to be awarded in the category of Lifetime Achievement at the 28th Annual Infinity Awards hosted by the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York. The “William Klein + Daido Moriyama” exhibition together with William Klein at London’s Tate Modern in 2012-13 was a showdown of two immensely popular photographers that took the world by storm.
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