Daido Moriyama

Silver Gelatin Print

27.9x35.6cm/50.8x61cm/100x150cm

Silver Gelatin Print

27.9x35.6cm/50.8x61cm/100x150cm

Open Edition

Silver Gelatin Print

27.9x35.6cm/50.8x61cm/100x150cm

Open Edition

How to take beautiful photographs 6：
Tights in Shimotakaido #5，1987

Silver Gelatin Print

27.9x35.6cm/50.8x61cm/100x150cm

Open Edition

How to take beautiful photographs 6：
Tights in Shimotakaido #2，1987

Silver Gelatin Print

27.9x35.6cm/50.8x61cm/100x150cm

Open Edition

How to take beautiful photographs 6：
Tights in Shimotakaido #3，1987

Silver Gelatin Print

27.9x35.6cm/50.8x61cm/100x150cm

Open Edition

The First Step to Beauty | Satoshi Machiguchi, Art Director

The exhibition “Dazai: Daido Moriyama” was inspired by the publication of the Chinese version of the Dazai photo book. Here, I excerpted a portion from the postscript: 

I like Osamu Dazai.

I was able to include the Chinese edition of Osamu Dazai’s novel Villon’s Wife (1947) in this book, which will allow more Chinese readers to better understand Dazai’s writing. Nothing makes me happier.

The world’s largest photography event, Paris Photo, is held in Paris every autumn. I participate every year, and 2014 was my seventh fair. That time, I brought the English edition of the Dazai catalog. I was excited, and a little anxious, to see how the Europeans would reach to Osamu Dazai’s work. Appropriately enough for the world’s largest photography fair, they were infatuated with the other protagonist of this book, Daido Moriyama, and they bought it for him.

I like Daido Moriyama.

This photo book is a group of fragments that Daido Moriyama has chosen from his massive body of work. Through these pictures, Chinese readers will learn more about his photographs. Nothing makes me happier.

My photography book company has produced many Daido Moriyama catalogs, and Dazai was the fifth book. Each year, I presented one of these books at Paris Photo. For me, it was a chance to examine Moriyama’s massive body of work, transforming each catalog into a precious moment in time. This moment is one reason for bringing together Osamu Dazai’s novel and Daido Moriyama’s photography. I want to express my respect and envy for people I like. (In 1948, Osamu Dazai ended his life before his fortieth birthday.)

I want Dazai to be published in every language of the world. I don’t simply want it translated; I want to utilize the materials and characteristics of each nation, and create photography books together with the people of these nations. This idea was inspired by my reunion with Beijing friends and artists Rongrong and inri at Paris Photo. They founded Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, so I brought Japanese technicians to hold a workshop with Chinese young people there. They learned from each other about the indispensable elements of design, printing, and binding.

This photo book is the crystallization of exchange and production within a small group of Chinese people and a small group of Japanese people. This book is an epoch-defining first step.

I would like to thank Rongrong and inri for planning this exhibition, the staff at +3 Gallery, and Souhei Moriyama of the Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation. Last but not least, we would like to thank Osamu Dazai and Daido Moriyama, who gave me this first, beautiful opportunity.

Daido Moriyama：Dazai 

中文版

摄影：森山大道
文字：太宰治
艺术总监：町口觉
编著：荣荣&映里
选题策划：三影堂摄影艺术中心教育项目&雅昌艺术图书
封面设计：町口觉（MATCH and Company Co.,Ltd）
装帧：精装 ，171页，157x230x18mm，2015年6月第一版

《森山大道：寺山》

 
森山大道&寺山修司

作者：寺山修司

汇编作者：町口觉（MATCH and Company Co., Ltd.）

翻译：赵冰清

主编：三影堂摄影艺术中心

北京联合出版公司出版

2018年2月第1版，第1次印刷

ISBN：978-7-5596-0267-1

Daido Moriyama: Odasaku

Daido Moriyama: Odasaku

(English Edition)

摄影：Daido Moriyama 

作家：Odasaku 

尺寸：216 x 190 mm

页数：180 页, 85张图像

出版日期：2016

限量发行：1500册

《森山大道：记录》

 No.1～34

规格：平装，278 x 220 mm，112页
出版时间：2017
出版：Akio Nagasawa Publishing

《ANOTHER COUNTRY IN NEW YORK》

 Daido Moriyama

出版社：Nazraeli Press
尺寸：315 x 215 mm，90pages
印刷：丝网印刷，简装
发行日期：2013

Daido Moriyama

Born in 1938 in Osaka, Japan. After working as an assistant to Takeji Iwamiya and Eiko Hosoe, he became a freelance photographer in 1964. His photobooks include ‘A japan, photo theater’ (1968), ‘Farewell Photography’ (1972), ‘Hunter’ (1972), ‘Light & Shadow’ (1982). He has held solo exhibitions at SFMoMA (1999); Fondation Cartier (2003); the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (2008); the National Museum of Art, Osaka (2011); the Tate Modern (2012); the Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum (2014); and more.