Photograph Mgn: Newly discovered images by Daido Moriyama’s magazine work
Tuesday, Mar 05, 2024 12:00 AM
Since nearly all the original prints were lost, the book reproduces everything as it appeared on the page. Some images are blown up to fill full pages; most are included in stacks next to captions in Japanese. Longer texts, most by Moriyama, are translated. His writing is straightforward and unpretentious; an essay on how he came to be involved with Shashin Jidai is terrific. The essays, like the photographs, are as engaging as diary entries: this is what I was thinking about today; this is what I saw. And the work he made for the magazine is typical of what we’ve come to expect of him now: messy, obsessive, over-exposed or thick with grain, and so random you’re constantly off guard....
written by Vince Aletti