Daido Moriyama

A first edition of Daido Moriyama's Shashin yo Sayonara, signed by the artist.

• Daido Moriyama (Japanese).
• Tokyo: Shashin Hyoron-sha, 1972.
• Quarto.
• 308, [2] pages.
• Black and white photographs printed in gravure.
• Transcript of a conversation between Moriyama Daido and Nakahira Takuma.
• Signed in black ink on title-page.
• Text in Japanese.
• Plain endpapers with small mark from bookseller's label, printed wrappers, black, grey, and blue, printed white dust jacket, text in black, blue, and grey, in a custom drop spine box.

Shashin yo Sayonara is the central book of the Provoke movement, born out of Moriyama's perceived limitations of Provoke's manifesto and photography as a medium. The resulting combination of images re-photographed from newspapers, magazines, television screens, other people's negatives, and his own pictures composed mainly of out-takes, scratched frames, and blurred images was sequenced by two editors at Shashin Hyoron-sha in a seemingly random order to create a visual manifestation of the overpowering density of life in modern Japan.