RECORD NO.26

「池袋愛すべし、池袋あなどり難し、というのがぼくの只今の感想である。」(「記録 第26号」より 著者コメント)
かつては新宿の街一辺倒だった森山大道が、散歩の途中でたまたまちょっと気に入った一枚の街角写真が写ってしまったことで火が点き、10年住み続けている西池袋を撮り始めた。
同じ巨大なターミナルステーションでも新宿と池袋とでは街の匂いが異なる。そこにいる人々によって生まれる熱気。人々から伝わるインパクト。1年余りかけて映し出した、森山大道の池袋の街角がここにある。
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。

DaidoMoriyama's primal subject was in Shinjuku, but then he accidentally struck into a street snapshot the he took at Ikebukuro while he was walking around the city, ignited the passion to shoot more of this town….starting at West Ikebukuro where he was living for the past 10 years. The scent of the streets of Shinjuku and Ikebukuro are not the same, even in a smilar Terminal Station which locates at the center of both. The heatwave and the impact steaming up from the people residing deep inside the town. This is Daido Moriyama's Ikebukuro Street Vision that he spent 1 year to accomplish.

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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