[ebooks] By The Book: Stories and Pictures by Diane Schoemperlen in Arts-Photography

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In just a fifty-year stream of time; Thingamajig Hills and Watchamacallit Tower will be grotesque and dilapidated abominations; the cityscape will have gone through changes more drastic than we can imagine; and within those city streets; a human species we wouldnrsquo;t recognize today will populate that future world. You donrsquo;t need digital or analog or polliwog to see that this city has already taken on a nightmarish aspect; in my view. But on that day; I didnrsquo;t have my usual optimistic shoot-above-allshy;else kind of attitude which would have told me thatrsquo;s all the more reason to record it on film. A feeling of ldquo;so what about it?rdquo; was too strong. My frustration got the better of me. Anyway; l suffered from a lack of sleep and was completely exhausted.As the cab approached its destination under a stifling cloudy sky; an image of overblown cherry blossoms flashed by the car window. I felt terribly gloomy. The driver had dropped into silence. It was an inconsequential moment on a late spring afternoon.- DAIDO MORIYAMADaidō Moriyama (Moriyama Daidō; born October 10; 1938) is a Japanese photographer noted for his images depicting the breakdown of traditional values in post-war Japan.Born in Ikeda; Osaka; Daidō Moriyama studied photography under Takeji Iwamiya before moving to Tokyo in 1961 to work as an assistant to Eikoh Hosoe. He produced a collection of photographs; on "Nippon gekijō shashinchō" Though not exclusively; Moriyama predominantly takes high contrast; grainy; black and white photographs within the Shinjuku area of Tokyo; often shot from odd angles. Moriyamas photography has been influenced by Seiryū Inoue; Shōmei Tōmatsu; William Klein; Andy Warhol; Eikoh Hosoe; the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima; the dramatist Shūji Terayama; and Jack Kerouacs "On the Road".Plexus Co.;Ltd.(Tokyo; Japan) proudly presents Daido Moriyamas lifework series "RECORD" in e-Book for the first time distributing in worldwide scale.