Publisher/月曜社

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The collection "The Passerby's Gaze" by Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama (1938-) captures his 50-year career as a photographer through the medium of photography theory, essays, and dialogues. As the phrase "the passerby's gaze," developed through his work in the field, suggests, Moriyama captures the physicality, memories, and fragments of moments of the city, intertwining the positions of subject, photographer, and viewer, in a matter-of-fact yet powerful way. Through diverse chapters such as "Never-Ending Journey: North/South," "Memory, Hypothesis, Exhibition," "Photography is Memories," "Shanghai," and "Shinjuku," Moriyama frankly discusses his vacillations between silver halide and digital, black-and-white, and color photography, his own relationship with photography, and his thoughts on the period when he returned from a slump. Moriyama, who has made a living capturing snapshots that capture the viewer at a glance, reflects on his own gaze as a "passerby" in this book, which is not merely a retrospective but also serves as a question for those who continue to photograph. The photographer's words resonate with the empty spaces, and the book will inspire readers to reexamine their own perspective.