ANOTHER COUNTRY IN NEW YORK
GALLERY HOURS | Tue.–Sat. 11:00–19:00 (Sat. 13:00–14:00 CLOSED)
CLOSED | Sun-Mon., National Holidays and April 29-May 6
Akio Nagasawa Gallery Ginza is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Daido Moriyama, ANOTHER COUNTRY IN NEW YORK.
The exhibition title, ANOTHER COUNTRY IN NEW YORK, derives from Moriyama’s self-published photobook of the same name, produced in 1974 as part of the Daido Moriyama Printing Show.
The Printing Show was an extremely experimental project for its time. During the event, photographic prints taken by Moriyama during his stay in New York in 1971 were copied, bound on site, and offered for immediate sale—an approach that resembles what we would now call a “zine.” The resulting publication, ANOTHER COUNTRY IN NEW YORK, later became known as a “legendary copy book” and remains a unique work in the history of photobooks.
In 2013, Akio Nagasawa Publishing released a reprint edition of the photobook. In 2025, the spirit of the original Printing Show was further developed through a participatory workshop held at a gallery in New York, where visitors copied prints and bound them on site to create their own photobooks.
This exhibition presents original prints from the ANOTHER COUNTRY IN NEW YORK series.
On the occasion of the exhibition, Akio Nagasawa Publishing will also offer a new edition of ANOTHER COUNTRY IN NEW YORK. This updated version includes numerous contact sheets that were not included in the original publication.
Through both the exhibition and the photobook, visitors are invited to experience Moriyama’s powerful vision of New York in 1971.
New York is a city that I like a lot - perhaps a little bit more even than I like Tokyo.
I've only been there one single time, but for me New York isn't just a place somewhere in the world - New York is for me the world itself. It certainly is a melting pot of people, concrete, steel and glass, but it is at once charged with an indefinable sort of tenderness and sadness. That tenderness and sadness lingers in a quite unique shape inside myself, which is why I sometimes think of the lights of New York like one reminisces about a lover. As I have a severe fear of flying, unfortunately I can't just hop on a plane and fly over to New York whenever I feel like doing so. When I went there last time, I shot 1,500 pictures with my half-frame camera, which ended up locked away mostly without being shown anywhere. It appeared to me that I'd like to try and collect them in an album that's like an album of a lover's pictures, and as Shimizu Gallery offered to provide the setting for the production of that album, my dream finally came true. I keep thinking that, if Tokyo, the place on "this side" that is so close yet at once so irritatingly far, is "my country", then New York is for me a far but familiar place on the other side, or in other words, "another country".
– Daido Moriyama (originally published in ANOTHER COUNTRY IN NEW YORK, 1974)
Artist
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.
Publication
ANOTHER COUNTRY IN NEW YORK (New Edition)
The latest title in the silkscreen-printed cover, hand-bound series.
This new edition revisits the legendary copy book self-published by Daido Moriyama for a printing show in 1974.
Following the 2013 reprint edition published by Akio Nagasawa Publishing, this volume newly includes a large number of contact sheets that had never been reproduced before.
On the occasion of the exhibition ANOTHER COUNTRY IN NEW YORK (Akio Nagasawa Gallery Ginza, April 8–May 30, 2026).
New York is a city that I like a lot - perhaps a little bit more even than I like Tokyo.
I've only been there one single time, but for me New York isn't just a place somewhere in the world - New York is for me the world itself. It certainly is a melting pot of people, concrete, steel and glass, but it is at once charged with an indefinable sort of tenderness and sadness. That tenderness and sadness lingers in a quite unique shape inside myself, which is why I sometimes think of the lights of New York like one reminisces about a lover. As I have a severe fear of flying, unfortunately I can't just hop on a plane and fly over to New York whenever I feel like doing so. When I went there last time, I shot 1,500 pictures with my half-frame camera, which ended up locked away mostly without being shown anywhere. It appeared to me that I'd like to try and collect them in an album that's like an album of a lover's pictures, and as Shimizu Gallery offered to provide the setting for the production of that album, my dream finally came true. I keep thinking that, if Tokyo, the place on "this side" that is so close yet at once so irritatingly far, is "my country", then New York is for me a far but familiar place on the other side, or in other words, "another country".
– Daido Moriyama (originally published in ANOTHER COUNTRY IN NEW YORK, 1974)