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"Light and Shadow" one of Daido Moriyama photography book that was
originally published in 1982 is revised in April 2009 from Kodansha.

"Light and Shadow"
H180mm×W111mm
204 pages
1890 yen

The exhibition is consisted by two parts, based on one theme "light
and Shadow" including the photographs of both 1982 and recent work.



Mon. April 24 - Sun. May 31
11:00-19:00
BLD Gallery
8F 2-4-9 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061

In straight forward saying, I think digital camera as a tool is suitable for the town, Ginza.   As I have been shooting on streets in Shinjuku area for long time, I was prone to feel Ginza unfamiliar, but maybe the flexibility of compact digital camera gives my shooting in Ginza area light steps.  
This time, I experience the first exhibition of photographs taken by digital camera and feel fun to look how my photographs are seen here at the gallery as well in this town.  I enjoy all process towards the exhibition.

Daido Moriyama

Jan.7-Feb.1, 2009 (closed on Tuesday)
11:00-20:00
admission fee: free

at RING CUBE
5-7-2 Ginza, Chuou-ku, Tokyo
San-ai Dream Center 8F/9F
03-3289-1521

Early summer in 1978, Moriyama stayed in Hokkaido, in the northern part of Japan, for three months renting a room at apartment. At that period, he took so many photographs.  Such huge number of just developed negative films have not printed for about 30 years until this year.

Once, my mind is filled with many towns in Hokkaido.  I wonder where the beating when I was crossing in the Tsugaru strait is gone even now.
Thirteen years ago, some editor suggested me to publish the photographs then.  Three years ago, the publisher was decided.  And now, the book is realized.

Daido Moriyama

exhibition
Dec. 19, 2008 - February 8, 2009 12:00-20:00(closed on Monday)
RAT HOLE GALLERY
B1F 5-5-3 Minami-Aoyama Tokyo
Phone 03-6419-3581

publication
"Hokkaido"
660pages、black and white
280×364mm
20,000yen
limited edition: 1500

As an event of the Japan-Brazil Year of Exchange, which marks the centennial of Japanese immigration to Brazil, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (MOT) is employing photography as a medium of exchange between Brazil and Japan. MOT will hold an exhibition of works by Daido Moriyama and Miguel Rio Branco, a Brazil-based photographer affiliated with Magnum Photos. They share a passion for photographing the city and people who live there, while each having his own distinctive worldview. For this exhibition, Daido Moriyama has photographed Sao Paulo, and Miguel Rio Branco has photographed Tokyo. At the exhibition, their differing perspectives and cultural backgrounds will intersect and reveal aspects of Japan and Brazil heretofore unknown. Seeing how they transform the small, easily overlooked moments of everyday life into scenes of deep significance, we too will be drawn into an investigation of reality in contemporary life.

Period: Oct. 22, 2008 － Jan. 12, 2009
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TOKYO
Closed on: Mondays (except January 12)
Opening Hours: 10:00-18:00（tickets available until 17:30）

Admission: Adults: 900yen / College & University Students: 700yen / High School & Junior High School Students & Adults over 65 years old: 600yen

It was 34 years ago, back in 1972, that I came out with the self-published photo journal "Kiroku (record)".  At that time, I was busy with all sorts of work for magazines.  Partly because of a daily feeling inside that I shouldn't let myself get carried away by it all, I came up with the idea of a small, self-published personal photo journal.  Without any ties to work or any fixed topic, I just wanted to continue publishing a 16-pages booklet with an arbitrary selection of favorite photos among the pictures I snapped from day to day.  By nature, it was directed first and foremost to myself rather than other people.  I wanted a simple, basic title, so I called it "Kiroku" .
Now, "Kiroku" has started again and continued to no. 10.  I look forward to embarking on a new voyage of recording.

Daido Moriyama