Signed
Mantis
Signed／Limited Edition: 350
In this beautifully produced artist’s book, Moriyama presents 21 frames printed as full-bleed enlargements,all from one contact sheet with an imprinted date of 1987.
The book is divided into three unintended chapters, the result of Daido having photographed one subject until his was satisfied, moving on to the next, and then repeating this once more.
he book opens, fantastically, with a close-up of the hand of Masahisa Fukase, the artist’s friend and contemporary, holding a praying mantis which has caught the attention of them both; after several frames, Moriyama abruptly stops and then continues the roll of film inside of a studio apartment elsewhere. A female subject unwittingly and slowly becomes mantis-like in her poses, and gradually she merges into yet another subject, a mysterious set of portraits whose timelessness is given away only by the frames that preceded it.
- Book Size
- 38x31cm
- Pages
- 48 page
- Printing
- hardcover,Slipcased
- Publication Date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Nazraeli Press
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.
Publications of Daido MORIYAMA
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TOKYO REVISITED: Daido Moriyama with Shomei Tomatsu
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Mazu tashikarashisa no sekai wo sutero: shashin to gengo no shisō.
Daido MORIYAMA, Takuma NAKAHIRA
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The Photo Image (Complete of 10 books)
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TOKYO POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY Shadai Gallery Daido Moriyama Archive 1960 − 1982
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TIGHTS IN SHIMOTAKAIDO (Special Edition) C
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TIGHTS IN SHIMOTAKAIDO (Special Edition) B
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Another Language: 8 Japanese Photographers (Signed)
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Limited Edition Portfolio of 10 Silkscreen Prints “Odasaku”
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RECORD Extra Issue No.1 [Daido Moriyama x Hajime Sawatari]
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RECORD Extra Issue No.1 [Daido Moriyama x Hajime Sawatari] (Special Edition)
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Prints of Daido MORIYAMA
