RECORD NO.31

東京とパリが織りなす”二都物語”
フランスの ”Foundation Cartier pour l'art contemporain” にて開催された「DAIDO TOKYO」展にさいして訪れたパリとその前後で撮影した東京のスナップで構成された一冊。
森山大道(もりやま だいどう)/写真家。1938年10月10日。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)など。

A "Tentative Tale of Two Cities" between Tokyo and Paris.
This issue contains the series of images snapped in Tokyo and Paris during the opening of Daido Moriyama's exhibition "DAIDO TOKYO" held at Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain.

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”.