“Dear Kazue, for me, this is the image. The book will be ready around April 1. The title of the photobook is Daido Moriyama 1970-79. All the best.” Tachikawa, Tokyo, 1969. Digital proof copy of Daido Moriyama 1970-79, 1989. Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation Archives.
Bar in the Shinjuku district, Tokyo, with Daido Moriyama’s photograph stamp. Photograph in gelatin and silver, 2015. Akio Nagasawa Collection.
Photo for the article “Hiroshima & Kure”, Asahi Camera, July 1972. Polaroid. Akio Nagasawa Collection.
Photograph in gelatin and silver, 1976. Akio Nagasawa Collection.
Sakata, Yamagata. Digital print proof and tracing paper, 1981. Akio Nagasawa Collection.
Frame of radish shoots, 1984. Akio Nagasawa Collection.
Photographer Takuma Nakahira, intellectual partner of Moriyama and author of the photobook For a Language to Come (Kitaru Beki Kotoba No Tame Ni, 1970). Proof copy, 1988. Akio Nagasawa Collection. In red: “If you need to crop the image, crop the top.”
Self-portrait for the book From Photography/To Photography (Shashin kara Shashin, ed. Seikyusha, 1995). Photograph in gelatin and silver, 1995. Akio Nagasawa Collection.
Reproduction of X-ray of Daido Moriyama. Photograph in gelatin and silver, 2014. Akio Nagasawa Collection.
Photograph for the series “Japan’s Scenic Trio 3: Mutsumatsushima”, Camera Mainichi, April 1974. Photograph in gelatin and silver. Included in the book Japan, a Photo Theater II (Zoku Nippon Gekijo Shashincho, 1978). Akio Nagasawa Collection.
“Images are not thought in themselves,” proclaimed the editorial of Provoke 1. “What we photographers can do, and should do, is capture with our own eyes those fragments of reality that are completely impossible to capture with existing words and continue actively to create materials that challenge those words and thoughts.” Provoke 1 (ed. Provoke-sha, 1968). Akio Nagasawa Collection.
“The excessive ripening of capitalist society, such as rotting, ripe fruit, causes sexual phenomena and sexual images to spread,” says Takahiko Okada, one of the members of Provoke. Provoke 2 (ed. Provoke-sha, 1969). Akio Nagasawa Collection.
Provoke 3 (ed. Provoke-sha, 1969). Akio Nagasawa Collection.
Provoke 4 (ed. Provoke-sha, 1970). Akio Nagasawa Collection.
“On the Road: Tokyo Ring Road, National Highway 16“, Camera Mainichi, Oct. 1969. Satoshi Machiguchi Collection.
“Journey for Something 3: In the Town of Misawa, Aomori Province”, Asahi Camera, March 1971. Original publication of one of Moriyama’s most famous photos. Satoshi Machiguchi Collection.
“Another Country 18: Japanese City”, Asahi Journal, 10 Dec. 1971. Satoshi Machiguchi Collection.
“New York”, Asahi Camera, April 1972. First publication of work produced in the United States. Satoshi Machiguchi Collection.
A Hunter (Kariudo, ed. Chūōkorōnsha, 1972). “When [the editor Shōji] Yamagishi warned me that A Hunter had been selected as the last volume of the series of ten photobooks Eizo in Gendai, I was exultant. I ran to the lab on the second floor of my apartment in Zushi and made the copies in one session.” The series also included books by Shōmei Tōmatsu and Masahisa Fukase, among others. Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation Archives.
Farewell, Photography! (Shashin yo Sayonara, ed. Shashin Hyōron-sha, 1972). “I did not get involved with the layout of the book. When I copied the photos, I did a lot of crops, I used parts of negatives and negatives of other people, such as my colleague Kōji Taki at Provoke, taking advantage of any negative that had fallen on the floor of the lab.” Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation Archives.
Another Country in New York, 1974. “I borrowed a Canon photocopier. The quality was not very good yet. The tones were inconsistent; and parts of the images were lost. But degradation was what was interesting […]. While the silk screened covers dried, the visitor had a coffee and waited. I asked him to choose the cover option, stapled the pages, and delivered the publication.” Akio Nagasawa Collection.
Publication of the gallery studio Camp Image Shop (1980), edited by Daido Moriyama, Keizo Kitajima, Seiji Kurata and others. Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation Archives.