RECORD NO.8

34年の時を経て復刊された『記録』シリーズの復刊第3号「記録 第8号」(2007年10月刊行)を電子書籍化。3年間こだわって通ったハワイ撮影を終え、本来のテリトリーである“東京”に森山大道が帰ってきた。彼が惹かれてやまない街の匂いが、ここにある。
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。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し、世界的にも高い評価を得る。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。

Putting my upcoming work in Mexico City and Säo Paulo aside for the meantime, Tokyo is the place I feel most attracted to right now. For several years, in a completely natural, even inevitable way, Tokyo has emerged in the heart of my mind as my next target….
Though I've already lived some 47 years in Tokyo, I could hardly say that I really know the city well. Even though I have the impression that my camera and I have trekked quite a lot through Tokyo, shooting here and there, I've long had the uneasy feeling that my coverage of most neighborhoods has more holes in it than Swiss cheese. I hope that such a project will allow me to appease that feeling. For example, I'd like to begin by walking around Tateishi, Aoto or Koiwa along the Keisei Railway. Yes, that's probably the way I'Il be making a living a few years down the line. And then, l'Il probably return to Shinjuku once again.
-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.