![]() ![]() Boards Hard front and rear covers of a bound book which are covered in cloth, leather or paper.Association Copy copy that belonged to someone connected with the author or the contents of a book.Armorial Used to describe a binding bearing the coat of arms of the original owner, or with bookplates incorporating the owner’s arms.Although the name contains the word “tint”, this is a black-and-white printing process aquatint plates can often be hand colored, however. By changing the areas of the plate that are exposed and the length of time the plate is submerged in the acid bath, the engraver can obtain fine and varying shades of gray that closely resemble watercolor washes. Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid.It can be asked of each of Moriyama’s works, “Is there to be found anywhere else in the history of photographic bookmaking such a raw cry as this?” (Roth). “The xerox methodology inevitably pushed Moriyama’s imagery to the limits of coherence, as was the intention” (Parr & Badger, 301). In his own words, “My underlying thought was to show how in the most common and everyday, in the world of the most normal people, in their most normal existence, there is something dramatic? This kind of chaotic everyday existence is what I think Japan is all about.” In the mid 1970s Moriyama developed his ultimate trademark style (for which this book is the clear prototype) by renting a Tokyo shop and a xerox machine, and for 14 days, producing photocopied books of his images on demand. This work brilliantly combines his photo-essay on Japanese theater with “images of other types of urban outsiders to make a metaphor of theater-as-life, and of life-as-theater” (Parr & Badger). Like the radar sweep, they obliterate as they reveal” (Neville Wakefield). Moriyama’s pictures are “shot without heed to the accepted protocols- chance condensations of light mix evidence with abstraction. Housed in a custom clamshell box.įirst edition of Moriyama’s first book, his combined impressions of Japanese theater and urban street-life, in 145 full-page high-contrast photogravures, signed by Moriyama in Japanese and English. ![]() Square octavo, original olive limp paper wrappers, original corrugated cardboard slipcase. Nippon Gekijo Shashincho (Japan- A Photo Theater). The blister has been slit-open, and the book opened for browsing by Yours Truly is it new and in mint condition.“A METAPHOR OF THEATER-AS-LIFE, AND OF LIFE-AS-THEATER”: MORIYAMA’S FIRST BOOK, JAPAN- A PHOTO THEATER, SIGNED BY HIM The book, limited to an edition of 700, is numbered and signed by Daido Moriyama. ![]() This 2018 release is the first to feature English translations of Shuji Terayama's writings. On invitation of Japanese writer Shuji Terayama, Moriyama began photographing members of a traveling theater group, adding shots of dwarf show dancers, strip clubs, street performers, fetuses in formaldehyde containers and other motifs. Originally published in 1968 – the year which also saw the launch of the influential Provoke magazine – the book already demonstrates Moriyama's trademark visual style. ![]() " The very first photobook by legendary Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama, Japan: A Photo Theater, is finally available again in a renewed edition. ![]()
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