Daido Moriyama - Farewell Photography (PROVOKE) - 2006

FANTASTIC BIG FORMAT VARIANT of the BRILLIANT SECOND BOOK by Daido Moriyama,
till today one of his best and most impressive publications and one of the most influential in the history of photobooks:

- Andrew Roth, The Book of 101 Books, page 218
- Martin Parr, Gerry Badger, The Photobook, A History, Volume 1, page 298/299; Volume 2, pages 206, 318
- Hasselblad Center, The Open Book, page 290
- 801 photobooks of the M. + M. Auer collection, page 543
- Manfred Heiting and Kaneko Ryuichi, page 344

COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET AND WITH THE ORIGINAL SLIPCASE.

VERY FRESH CONDITION.

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"Chaotic everyday existance is what I think Japan is all about. This kind of theatricality is not just a metaphor but is also, I think, our actual reality"
- Daido Moriyama -

"To get even closer to this actual reality, to record it more thruthfully, Moriyama wanted to make himself a machine, to get beyond subjectivity and become more like a camera, and this desire is brought to a new level in 'Bye, Bye Photography, Dear'."
- David Levi Strauss -

"Shashin yo sayonara ( Bye Bye Photography) is the most extreme monument of the Provoke period, indeed one of the most extreme photobooks ever published . Moiyama's vision is entirely consistent, and his willingness to be led to the edge of photography's coherence is the photographic equivalent of Surrealist automatic writing by a camera that almost has a mind of its own. 'I wanted to go to the end of photography' he declared, and the book is a summation of the Provoke period. It reads like a jerkly hand-held cinéma vérité film"
- Gerry Badger -

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PowerShovelBooks. 2006.

Paperback with dustjacket and with clear acetate (plastic) slipcase with printed letters. 230 x 295 mm. 276 pages. Contains 135 deeply printed black and white full-bleed plates (most in 2-page spreads). Photos: Daido Moriyama. Text in Japanese.

Condition:
Book and dustjacket like new und unread; super fresh and flawless. Slipcase with marginal trace of use, but with no tears, no missing parts, no remarkable flaws or defects. Overall very fine condition.

Brilliant, highly influential photobook title and a must-have for every ambitious photobook collection -
in excellent fresh condition.