Daido Moriyama: Record 51 (Signed)

Daido Moriyama’s personal photographic magazine, originally published in 1972-73 then ongoing since 2006.

"An exhibition of my photographs just opened at a museum in Sao Paulo, and there are also shows underway at museums in Rome and Beijing. While asking myself how my photographs may look to the people in these faraway places, I’m also in the middle of producing a voluptuous close-up shot of a woman’s cherry-red lips for a 3 x 3 meter billboard on the corner of the Yodobashi Camera building in Tokyo’s Nishi-Shinjuku district. Being the “red lip fetishist” that I am, I didn’t think twice before accepting that job, and working on that one shot gave me a boost and inspired me to walk over to the entertainment district west of the railway overpass, to shoot the crowds of people in the streets. As a result, volume 51 of “Record” is entirely dedicated to the Nishi-Shinjuku neighborhood. It had been a while since I’d last walked and shot in the Nishi-Shinjuku area, and while these photographs were made with my usual attitude, I particularly wonder how they will be perceived this time"

 -Daido Moriyama

 

Title: Record No.51
Publisher: Akio Nagasawa Publishing, 2022
Author: Daido Moriyama
Photographer: Daido Moriyama
Format: Softcover
Size: 27.8 x 22 cm, 104 pages