Moriyama Daido Photo Collection (1): Nippon Theatre Photo Book

Daido Moriyama's debut work, Nippon Gekijo Shashin-cho (Photo Album of Japanese Theater), published in 1968, is a series of photographs of the public, entertainers, theater companies, and playhouses that tell the story of Japan at the time, which he shot after moving to Tokyo and working as an assistant to photographers Takeji Iwamiya and Eikoh Hosoe. Although several new editions have been published since then, the black-and-white photogravure printing that is symbolic of the era and the non-narrative/fragmented layout that makes you encounter images every time you open a page can only be experienced in the original 1968 edition. This is truly a book that can be called a monumental work that marks the origin and foreshadows the golden age that followed.

This book is the first volume of the "Moriyama Daido Photo Collection," a series in which the photographer himself has joined the direction of reviving out-of-print works with new printing and design by designer Satoru Machiguchi. This is the definitive series that revives early masterpieces with triple-tone printing, reproducing them in the image size of the original edition. It also contains valuable comments from the photographer himself, such as recollections of those days, episodes related to the shooting, and the shooting locations, making it a useful resource.

Signed by the author.

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Title: Daido Moriyama Photography Collection No.1: Japan, A Photo Theatre
Artist: Daido Moriyama
Getsuyo-sha, 2018
Softcover with dust-jacket and obi-band, case binding
310 x 230 x 25 mm
232 pages
Text in Japanese
First edition, signed by the artist
ISBN: 978-4-86503-067-9