Moriyama, Daido. Takuma, Shashin yo sayonara + SIGNED ORIG.-PHOTOGRAPH 1/150

Moriyama, Daido – Takuma, Nakahira.
Shashin yo sayonara (Farewell, Photography, Bye Bye Photography).
Tokyo, Shashin Hyoronsha (1972). Gr.-8°. [308] S. mit teils
doppelblattgr. Tafeln in shed-fed-gravure. OKart. mit OU.

Auer 543. Heiting/Kaneko 344 f., 256.
Parr/Badger I, 298 u. II, 206 u. 318. The Open Book 290 f. Roth, The
Book of 101 Books 218 ff. – Erste und einzige Ausgabe, eines der
wichtigsten japanischen Fotobücher und des bekanntesten Werks des
berühmten japanischen Fotografen. – Dazu: Orig.-Photographie (Silbergelatine, 23 x 15,5 cm.), Rückenakt. verso von D. Moriyama signiert und num. 125/150.
– „Chaotic everyday existance is what I think Japan is all about. This
kind of theatricality is not just a metaphor but is also, I think, our
actual reality“ (D. Moriyama). – „To get even closer to this actual
reality, to record it more thruthfully, Moriyama wanted to make himself a
machine, to get beyond subjectivity and become more like a camera, and
this desire is brought to a new level in ‚Bye, Bye Photography, Dear‘.“
(D. Levi Strauss in Roth). – „Shashin yo sayonara ( Bye Bye Photography)
is the most extreme monument of the Provoke period, indeed one of the
most extreme photobooks ever published … Moiyama’s vision is entirely
consistent, and his willingness to be led to the edge of photography’s
coherence is the photographic equivalent of Surrealist automatic writing
by a camera that almost has a mind of its own. „I wanted to go to the
end of photography“ he declared, and the book is a summation of the
Provoke period. It reads like a jerkly hand-held cinéma vérité film“
(Parr/Badger). – Sehr gutes Exemplar.