RECORD No.6

I was having coffee at Cafe Huit in Shinjuku with Akio Nadasawa, an acquaintance of mina who makes T-Shirts, posters and watches with my photos. All of a sudden, he brought up an unexpected topic: "Why don't you we start up 'Kiroku' again?" That was the fourthest things from my mind, so I hesitated and asked: "You mean that 'Kiroku'?," " Yes, that 'Kiroku'," he answered calmly. For a while, all I could do was mumble "uh…umm…"
-DAIDO MORIYAMA

Daidō Moriyama (Moriyama Daidō, born October 10, 1938) is a Japanese photographer noted for his images depicting the breakdown of traditional values in post-war Japan.
Born in Ikeda, Osaka, Daidō Moriyama studied photography under Takeji Iwamiya before moving to Tokyo in 1961 to work as an assistant to Eikoh Hosoe. He produced a collection of photographs, on "Nippon gekijō shashinchō" Though not exclusively, Moriyama predominantly takes high contrast, grainy, black and white photographs within the Shinjuku area of Tokyo, often shot from odd angles. Moriyama's photography has been influenced by Seiryū Inoue, Shōmei Tōmatsu, William Klein, Andy Warhol, Eikoh Hosoe, the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, the dramatist Shūji Terayama, and Jack Kerouac's "On the Road".

Plexus Co.,Ltd.(Tokyo, Japan) proudly presents Daido Moriyama's lifework series "RECORD" in e-Book for the first time distributing in worldwide scale.

34年の時を経て、2006年に復刊された幻の森山大道の私家版写真誌「記録 第6号」を電子書籍化。砕け散ったガラス、陽だまりのビルディング、地下街の群集、雨に濡れたアスファルト。都市のざわめきと混沌が、重厚なモノクロームで写し出される。

森山大道(もりやま だいどう)/写真家。1938年10月10日、大阪府生まれ。岩宮武二スタジオを経て細江英公の助手となり、1964年より独立。ハイコントラストで粒子の粗い“アレ・ブレ・ボケ”と称される独自のスタイルを確立するなど、既存の写真表現をラディカルに挑発し続け、世界的にも高い評価を得る。「量のない質はない」というポリシーのもと、現在でも膨大な数のストリートスナップを撮り続けている。近年の写真集に『NAGISA』『LABYRINTH』(Akio Nagasawa Publishing)、『カラー』『モノクロ』(月曜社)、『実験室からの眺め』(河出書房新社)など。