One of the most beautiful books on the photographic art and achievement of Daido Moriyama. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. None of the copies was distributed outside Japan. There is no ISBN. The First Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Daido Moriyama and Miyuki Ogura: Oversize-volume format. Black cloth boards with silver-gray titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Daido Moriyama. There is no text. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Tokyo, Japan to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is outstanding in every respect. In pictorial DJ with black titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents "Moriyama Daido 1970-1979: Photographs". From among hundreds of titles, one of the photographer's very best books: Opulently, heart-stoppingly, stunningly beautiful photographs, selected by Daido Moriyama, to sum up his ground-breaking work during the 1970's. He has chosen discriminately, showcasing only thirty-eight images in all, every single one of them sensational, from the thousands of photographs he took and published elsewhere. It's as if, after indulging himself - and us - with a torrent of images in hundreds of other books, he decided it was time to cull the best for posterity. You will not only look at, but linger over, each photograph. That is how great they all are. They show why he is one of the great visual artists of our time. Moriyama's life-work has been to make us keenly aware of the photograph as the product of a mechanical instrument (the camera) and of the person behind the camera (the photographer) as the witness to the constant flow and throbbing intensity of physical reality. While the photograph shows reality as ever-changing, a painting makes it seem static, immutable, essential. A photograph is a fragment. "To take a photograph is to fragment the comprehensive sensory data" (Daido Moriyama). For many intelligent people, this is precisely the weakness of and problem with photography, that it reduces reality to our sense of sight. For Moriyama, it is the medium's inherent and unavoidable nature and therefore its strength, the starting point of all photography, whatever the individual photographer's talent or intentions may be. An absolute "must-have" title for Daido Moriyama collectors. This title is a great art photography book. It is one of the very best books by Daido Moriyama, and stands out from among the hundreds of books he has published. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition