Japan, a Photo Theater II

Daido Moriyama
Japan, a Photo Theater II

Photographs: Daido Moriyama

Text: Shoji Yamagishi

Publisher: Asahi Sonorama

120 pages

Pictures: 113

Year: 1978

Comments: Hardcover with green dust jacket as issued, 210 x 220 mm. First edition, 1978. Text in Japanese and in english. Beautiful reproductions in black and white. In very good condition other than the spine a bit faded.

Contains mainly works exhibited « Tokyo : Meshed World » in 1977 and works published as « Tokyo : Meshed Women » in 1977 issue of Camera Mainichi.

In his first exhibit, Japan, a Photo Theater I, Moriyama recorded the lives and expressions of traveling actors, as the title implies. In this book however, all photographs were taken in Tokyo. In these he takes objects existing in the world such as posters, magazines, mannekins, etc, which other people see as mass media, and places them on his own stage as though they were his own objects. When we look ath these photographs, in other words, the reflection of his soul, we are made to notice what exactly we are looking at in daily life.

Shoji Yamagishi