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Japan Theatre Photo Book by Moriyama Daimichi
A collection of works by Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama.
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.
"'Nippon Theater Photo Album' was intended as an experiment to see if I could reconstruct the chaotic gaze of everyday life by deconstructing all the photographs I had taken over the past few years from their respective contexts, treating each image as a fragment, and then placing these fragments on the same plane in an entirely different context. And what emerged at the end of this experiment and deconstruction was not something 'completely different', but rather a context that contained another 'Nippon Theater,' a photo book that was created through a mutual response between the temperaments and thinking of Shuji Terayama and myself." - Daido Moriyama
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Title: Japan, A Photo Theatre
Artist: Daido Moriyama
Muromachi Shobo, 1968
Softcover book in slipcase, perfect binding
Slipcase: 222 x 222 x 25 mm | Book: 209 x 220 x 16 mm
216 pages
Text in Japanese
First edition
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.
"'Nippon Theater Photo Album' was intended as an experiment to see if I could reconstruct the chaotic gaze of everyday life by deconstructing all the photographs I had taken over the past few years from their respective contexts, treating each image as a fragment, and then placing these fragments on the same plane in an entirely different context. And what emerged at the end of this experiment and deconstruction was not something 'completely different', but rather a context that contained another 'Nippon Theater,' a photo book that was created through a mutual response between the temperaments and thinking of Shuji Terayama and myself." - Daido Moriyama
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Title: Japan, A Photo Theatre
Artist: Daido Moriyama
Muromachi Shobo, 1968
Softcover book in slipcase, perfect binding
Slipcase: 222 x 222 x 25 mm | Book: 209 x 220 x 16 mm
216 pages
Text in Japanese
First edition
