Daido Moriyama
Daido Moriyama
Tokyo, 2011
4002-BK
vol.23 Daido Moriyama photographs Tokyo comprises thirty-one original photographs by Daido Moriyama. The photos are arranged in sequence and varying number over a total of twelve double pages, the majority of these photos published here for the first time. Their subject, the capital city of Tokyo, is treated with the photographer’s characteristic tormented lyricism. We encounter the same recurring motifs in his work for communicating his fascination for texture: here a gaping mouth, there the luster of a car body, an illuminated sign, a muddy sidewalk… Daido Moriyama A major figure in contemporary Japanese photography, Daido Moriyama is one of the founders of the selfcalled, avantgarde movement, « Provoke”, that came to life in the 1960s. He is at the core of what emerged as a new visual language, both nervous and frantic, that delighted in the out-of-focus, the grainy and deformity in general. He has had work exhibited in one-man shows worldwide most notably at the Metropolitan Museum (NY), the San Francisco MOMA and at the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris. Description: Solo project (#1) 31 original photographs (gelatin silver prints) glued to paper Japanese binding 21 x 33 x 1,7 cm Limited edition of 18 copies + 5 H.C November 2011 Graphic design: Olivier Andreotti
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Daido Moriyama
SOLITUDE DE L'OEIL, 2007
1835
VOL. 6 Daido Moriyama photographs Michel Bulteau text Olivier Andreotti case The six poems by Michel Bulteau are infused with the rumblings of Tokyo, poems that speak equally of its derelict side as its luster. The poet lines up specific details, fishing out odd fragments from Daido Moriyama’s photographs as he pulls us into his spectral universe, crawling with gangsters and clawed animals. Bathed in a melancholic light, the photographs share characteristics with the color work of the artist and describe a sensual and sorrowful Tokyo. The traycase takes its inspiration from the steep slopes that crown most buildings in Tokyo and its choice of material–painted plastic recalls contemporary Japanese architecture. The text follows the line drawing of a confused network of electric cables, evoking the complex urban tissue of the Japanese capital. Daido Moriyama A major figure in contemporary Japanese photography, Daido Moriyama is one of the founders of the selfcalled, avantgarde movement, « Provoke”, that came to life in the 1960s. He is at the core of what emerged as a new visual language, both nervous and frantic, that delighted in the out-of-focus, the grainy and deformity in general. He has had work exhibited in one-man shows worldwide most notably at the Metropolitan Museum (NY), the San Francisco MOMA and at the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris. Michel Bulteau Michel Bulteau was 21 years old when he published Le Manifeste électrique (the Electric Manifesto). In 1972 he had the decisive encounter of meeting William Burroughs and Brion Gysin in London. He settled in New York in 1976 where he soon became part of the punk movement, joining the circle around Warhol and the Beat writers. His memories of New York infuse his book, New York est une fête, brought out by the French publishers, La Différence. After returning to Paris a certain dandyism and fin-de-siècle aesthetic, which has always hovered in the background, finds its full expression in a number of books: Minuties (La Différence, 1989), L’exilé de Venise, essai sur Corvo (Le Rocher, 1990), Le club des longues moustaches (Quai Voltaire, 1988). Description: Tokyo Triptych 1/3 6 original signed photographs (chromogenic prints), mounted on cardboard Case made of painted plastic 51,7 x 42,5 x 5,2 cm Text in French and Japanese Limited edition of 40 copies May 2006 Graphic design: Olivier Andreotti
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