FAREWELL PHOTOGRAPHY by Daido Moriyama (SIGNED ltd. ed. of 1000 copies)
Bookshop M / Getsuyosha, 2019, First edition thus, Limited to 1000 SIGNED copies (this being #552/1000, 280 pp., 9" X 12 1/4", Hardcover and seperate booklet in cardboard slipcase.
Fine in a very good+ slipcase
This heavy, glossy, slipcased, reprinted reinterpretation of the legendary 1972 book Farewell Photography brings a much-sought-after classic back into print under the strict supervision of the artist, Daido Moriyama. Together with the publisher, Moriyama worked with larger prints and chose higher contrasts, abolishing all text in order to emphasize the dynamic, broken, blurred, vertiginously tilted, starkly cropped, and timeless photography reproduced here.
The book includes a companion magazine with a retrospective essay by Moriyama as well as details and backgrounds for each single photobook (compiled exclusively for this publication). The English edition of the companion magazine opens with an edited English translation of Daido Moriyama's conversation with Takuma Nakahira, originally included in Japanese in the 1972 release and never before translated.