Daido Moriyama - 写真よさようなら / Farewell Photography - 2006

Item Description
森山大道 Daido Moriyama (1938–) — Shashin yo Sayounara / Farewell Photography

First Edition Reprint — Published by PowerShovel Books, 2006
Farewell Photography is one of the most radical and iconic photobooks in the history of Japanese photography. Originally published in 1972 by Shashin Hyoronsha, this 2006 first-edition reprint by PowerShovel Books faithfully recreates Moriyama's most provocative work, widely regarded as a watershed moment in postwar visual art.
The book embodies Moriyama's celebrated "are, bure, boke" (grainy, blurred, out-of-focus) aesthetic pushed to its absolute limit — a deliberate rejection of conventional photographic beauty in favor of raw, visceral immediacy. The images, shot across Japan's urban fringes and marginal spaces, pulsate with an almost anarchic energy, capturing the disorientation and alienation of modern life with unflinching honesty.
The minimalist white hardcover design — bearing only the title 写真よさようなら / FAREWELL PHOTOGRAPHY — is itself a statement of intent: stark, uncompromising, and quietly subversive. The spine carries Moriyama's name in Japanese kanji, while "DAIDO MORIYAMA" is embossed on the bottom edge of the front board. The book is enclosed in its original clear protective plastic sleeve.

Published by PowerShovel, Ltd. (Tokyo) / Distributed by Seiun-sha
ISBN: 4-434-07524-1
First edition: April 1, 2006
Printed in Japan

This out-of-print edition is increasingly difficult to obtain and represents an essential acquisition for collectors of Japanese photobooks, photography history, and postwar avant-garde art.

Size
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 23 cm
Depth: 2 cm

Weight
1427 g

Condition
The book is in very good condition with no tears, writing, or notable stains to the pages; the clear protective plastic sleeve shows minor surface scratches and light scuffing consistent with storage, but the book block itself is clean and undamaged.

Artist Profile
森山大道 Daido Moriyama (1938–)
Daido Moriyama was born on October 10, 1938, in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. After working as a graphic designer, he became an assistant to photographers Takeji Iwamiya and Eikoh Hosoe before establishing himself independently in 1964. He quickly rose to prominence through his contributions to the avant-garde photography journal Provoke (1968–1970), where his signature "are, bure, boke" style — characterized by high contrast, heavy grain, motion blur, and radical cropping — challenged the very definition of photography as an art form.
His landmark photobooks, including Nippon Theatre (1968) and Farewell Photography (1972), redefined the boundaries of the photobook as an artistic medium and cemented his status as one of the most important figures in 20th-century photography. Moriyama has held major solo exhibitions at institutions including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1999), Tate Modern, London (2012), and the Fondation Cartier pour l'art Contemporain, Paris (2016). In 2012, he became the first Japanese photographer to receive the ICP Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement. He was awarded the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2018 and the prestigious Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography in 2019.


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