Movie theater showing sex film in Shinjuku, Tokyo, 1966. Photograph in gelatin and silver, 1967. Taken for the book Oh, Wilderness! (Aa, Kōya, 1966), by the playwright Shūji Terayama. Akio Nagasawa Collection.
Early afternoon in the Kabukichō district, Tokyo, 1967. The garlands celebrate the opening of a coffee shop. Included in the book Japan, a Photo Theater (1968). Photograph in gelatin and silver, 1968. Akio Nagasawa Collection.
Photograph in gelatin and silver, 1995. Akio Nagasawa Collection.
Photographer Masahisa Fukase, Moriyama’s partner at the Workshop photography school, founded in 1974. In 1986, Fukase published the photobook Ravens (Karasu, 1986). Photograph in gelatin and silver, 1997. Akio Nagasawa Collection.
“When I was photographing these fetuses gesturing in front of my lens, I felt like I was photographing myself.” One of the first articles published by Daido Moriyama in the magazine Gendai no Mei, edited by Takuma Nakahira, Feb. 1965. Satoshi Machiguchi Collection.
“Yokosuka”, Camera Mainichi, Aug. 1965. The magazine was edited by Shōji Yamagishi. Many of Moriyama’s famous photographs were originally taken for magazines. Satoshi Machiguchi Collection.
Moriyama began photographing popular Japanese theater at the suggestion of the playwright Shūji Terayama. “Theater of Japan”, Camera Mainichi, Jan. 1967. Satoshi Machiguchi Collection.
“Actor Isamu Shimizu”, Camera Mainichi, May 1967. Satoshi Machiguchi Collection.
“A photographic reportage is usually focused on a theme, on a complete story. I did not want my work to be treated in the same way as journalism. I did not want to ‘complete it.’ I had a lot of mixed feelings and I wanted to express them in a book.” Japan, a Photo Theater (Nippon Gekijō Shashinchō, ed. Muromachi Sobō, 1968), photographs by Daido Moriyama, text by Shūji Terayama. Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation Archives.
“With this series ‘Accident’, I want to be closely involved in these accidents and incidents, and thus reflect on the life and death of human beings.” Series “Accident 1: Images for a Certain 7 Days”, Asahi Camera, Jan. 1969, edited by Takayuki Komori. Satoshi Machiguchi Collection.
“Accident 2: Shinjuku 25 Hours”, Asahi Camera, Feb. 1969. Satoshi Machiguchi Collection.
“Accident 3: Takada is Here Below”, Asahi Camera, March 1969. Satoshi Machiguchi Collection.
“Accident 4: Blind Spot”, Asahi Camera, April 1969. Satoshi Machiguchi Collection.
“Accident 5: Between the Sky and the Sea”, Asahi Camera, May 1969. Satoshi Machiguchi Collection.
“Accident 6: Collision”, Asahi Camera magazine, June. 1969. Satoshi Machiguchi Collection.
“Accident 7: And Then There Were None”, Asahi Camera, July 1969. Satoshi Machiguchi Collection.
“Accident 8: Celebrities”, Asahi Camera, June 1969. Satoshi Machiguchi Collection.
“Accident 9: The Dirty City”, Asahi Camera, Sept. 1969. Satoshi Machiguchi Collection.
“Accident 10: Somber Sunday”, Asahi Camera, Oct. 1969. Satoshi Machiguchi Collection.
“Accident 11: On the Death of the Girl”, Asahi Camera, Nov. 1969. Satoshi Machiguchi Collection.
“Accident 12: October 21”, Asahi Camera, Dec. 1969. Satoshi Machiguchi Collection.