Publisher/中央公論社

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"Hunter (First Edition)" is a collection of works by Daido Moriyama, one of Japan's leading postwar photographers. It is one of his early representative and timeless masterpieces. The year this book was published in 1972 was the year of his release, when he released "Goodbye Photography," which could be considered his final destination after Provoke, in April, and this work was published in July of the same year. It was an important year that marked a turning point for Moriyama as well. After his debut work, "Nippon Theater Photo Album" (1968), which depicted the folk and performing arts culture of Japan, he was inspired by Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," recommended to him by Takuma Nakahira, and took photos while traveling by car. This is compiled from a series of photos taken while traveling by car, and a series in which, just as Kerouac got out of his car and sat down at his desk to pick up his pen, Moriyama also got out of his car and returned to the streets, taking photos and printing them in a darkroom. While "Goodbye Photography" marked the end of conventional photography, "The Hunter" could be said to be the work in which Daido Moriyama pursued his own originality while still following the proper path as a photographer, and thus established his own distinctive style. (Published in The Japanese Photobook 1912–1990)