RECORD NO.24

過剰に荒く、過剰にざわめき、過剰に美しい。あらゆる過剰が詰め込まれた若さ溢れるエネルギッシュなスナップ集。かつて森山氏が発した「量のない質はない」という言葉を自ら証明するかのような、『記録』シリーズ最大ボリュームで構成された南フランスの街角。
森山大道(もりやま だいどう)/写真家。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。

As a photographer, I regularly talk about snaps as if it were perfectly natural, but as soon as I come to myself and think about what exactly a “snap” actually is, I’m usually at a loss for an answer. Well, I have been thinking of snaps as offhand photographs shot in the street, or pictures taken in the manner of sneaky snaps, but while complacently calling myself a “street snapper”, I never quite understood the original meaning of the word as it seems.

This issue of “Kiroku”, by the way, features mostly snaps taken in Southern France, in cities including Arles, Avignon, Marseille, and Paris. It was a hot summer trip in July. My schedule was crammed with the usual dates — solo exhibitions, talk events, autographing sessions and workshops – in between which I always found the time for a snap or two. The sparkling Mediterranean Sea, endless fields of sunflowers, and my very first meeting with the extremely attractive photographer Sarah Moon are among the great memories I have of my summer journey across the Provence region.
-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".

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