When I look back on the nearly 50 years Ive been working as a photographer; the long path behind me seems like a long roll of film. It was a path of steep ups and downs; winding and sometimes twisted; but never really smooth. At its very end in the distant past I can see the pulsating cityscape of Osaka; the place where I encountered the love of my life: photography. When l think about it now; it was a tender but rather difficult kind of love."Kiroku" Vol. 11 is dedicated to a series of photographs taken in Osaka last summer; while walking around the city with a slight sense of nostalgia.-DAIDO MORIYAMADaidÅ Moriyama (Moriyama DaidÅ; 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; DaidÅ 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 gekijÅ shashinchÅ" 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 SeiryÅ« Inoue; ShÅmei TÅmatsu; William Klein; Andy Warhol; Eikoh Hosoe; the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima; the dramatist ShÅ«ji 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.
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