Daido Moriyama in Color: Now, And Never Again

Easily my favorite book devoted to his color work I've seen so far! It's almost more of a rare snapshot diary of the many B&W locations and images that fans might recognize among his more iconic images. Yet I don't mean to suggest that these color images are just sketches and have no impact on their own. This might be his coolest book in terms of dumping you right onto the streets and back alleyways of his vagabond wandering bar crawls across throughout Japan during the early to mid 1970's! As always; it's stark, immediate, and recorded on shoddy materials, yet the intimacy one feels on each page is like getting hold of a very personal and unique time machine. And each shot is printed LARGE and full bleed on the page like you could almost walk into it! Get it NOW before it's just another Japanese $$$$$$$ collectable!

The book itself in well bound, seems like it will hold up for quite a while, despite the massive size of the book (and it is massive!). The pages are glossy and the images are printed brilliantly, and the pages fold out so you can see the entire image. This is a very good purchase and was worth the cost. I would recommend it to any fan of Daido Moriyamas work.

I know the black and white photographs of Daido Moriyama that I like a lot.I had great expectations to see the color ones. It is a great deception.They are repetitives and without any new message.

Moriyama es un fotógrafo al que he seguido desde hace muchos años. Tengo la mayoría de sus libros y la mayoría son magistrales. Este no lo es. En este libro hay trazas de su estilo poco convencional e instintivo de hacer fotografía. Son fotografías puras, crudas, sin normas y sin filtros, características que han constituido la firma única del autor a lo largo de su vida. El problema es que en este libro ha ido demasiado lejos. Abunda material inexplicable que roza lo abstracto y carente del 'sentido' fotográfico del que ha dotado a otros libros. Me parece un libro en el que la editorial, amparada en el nombre del autor, únicamente pretende vender libros. En resumen, si un fotógrafo anónimo hubiera llevado gran parte de las fotografías de este libro a una editorial para que se las publicaran, le habrían aconsejado que dejara la bebida. Si quieres un buen libro de Moriyama, RECORD es excepcional

I have several of Daido's books and I have to say, I was completely blown away by seeing his older work in colour. I have seen his newer digital work in colour (which is usually shot on a point and shoot) and while it's cool, it just doesn't move me the way the stuff in this book does. I was also impressed with the handful of nudes in the book, which are seldom represented in his other releases. Sometimes when works like this come out they are B-sides of less than impressive stuff. That is not the case with this book. Everything is good. The book is also huge, with tons of images and frankly, a good deal at the $65 I paid.It's left me hungry for more of his work in colour from that era and I hope more of it sees the light of day at some point.

There are a lot of photographers who try very hard to convince the audience that they have great talent to capture a significant moment. Daido Moriyama is not one of them. He does not see the world through rose-tinted glasses. He sees Japan as it is. He is a master at capturing life with no attitude. He does not communicate to us his eccentricities, rather his understanding of the mundane aspects of life. He has an ability to make these mundane aspects stand out. He fills it with beauty of nature. He paints it with meaning, not with photo shopping or editing software. Flipping through the pages of this book makes me feel at home in Japan. However this book is not for children. It has a few adult themes. His photography of simple billboards and pasted flyers on the walls with rustic backgrounds is a lesson for all photographers out there. Here he does not capture a moment, but Japanese culture. Simply Amazing!!!

Daido Moriyama è un maestro della street photography in bianco e nero. Ma non solo; anche in queste foto a colori primeggia (vedi ad esempio le insegne al neon coloratissime, le sgargianti sale di pachinko, le foto pastellate per le sovraesposizioni intenzionali - in questi casi il colore aggiunge delle importanti informazioni)

UN LIBRO INCREIBLE.....DE SUS SERIES EN BLANCO Y NEGRAS PROFUNDAS Y OSCURAS....A UN LIBRO CON SUS ULTIMAS CREACIONES EN COLOR...UNA FORMA DE VER LA REALIDAD MUY PLASTICA Y TURBADORA. RECOMENDADO 100X100.