Publisher/月曜社

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"K" is a photobook by Daido Moriyama, one of Japan's leading photographers. After dropping out of a technical high school, he worked as an assistant to a commercial designer in Osaka from the mid-1950s. Moriyama turned to photography and joined the studio of Takeji Iwamiya, a leading figure in the Kansai photography world, in 1960, before moving to Tokyo and becoming an assistant to Eikoh Hosoe. He became active as a photographer in the late 1960s, met Takuma Nakahira and joined "Provoke", and from the 1970s onwards, he left behind masterpieces such as "The Hunter" and "Goodbye Photography". This book is a photobook of newly taken photos published in 2017. All photos taken with a digital camera are snapshots of the chaos and messiness of the city, typical of Moriyama, and are a photobook that "pursues various fragments of 'K = scenery'" (according to the publisher). At the end of the book, Moriyama's original column "Origin and Present - A Journey to Niepce / Today's Three" is included. "Dogs are told to go to the entertainment district, cats to go into the back alleys, and insects to avoid the red-light district. I can't help but feel that the whole meaning of my life and my photography is to continue to copy the secular world as it is, to spend my days wandering around Tokyo" (from "Today's Three").