Publisher/冬樹社

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"Light & Shadow (First Edition, With OBI)" is a collection of works by Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama. It is one of Moriyama's major works from his early to mid-career and is a masterpiece alongside "Nippon Gekijo Shashincho" and "Shashin yo Sayonara" (Goodbye Photography). After "Shashin yo Sayonara," which rejected preconceived notions of photography and realism and declared a break from the conventional act of photography itself, Moriyama became stuck in his thoughts about what photography is and what the act of taking a picture is, and the balance between his thoughts and actions was disrupted, causing him to stop taking photographs for a time. At that time, he was reminded of the "landscape photographs" taken by Niépce, a pioneer of photographic technique, which captured light, and he returned to his roots with this work, "Light & Shadow," realizing that he should not cling to a style that tries to express his own thoughts, but rather simply capture the facts before him and the products of light and shadow. Just as Takuma Nakahira transitioned from a more avant-garde style to a more straightforward, vivid style, Moriyama, while maintaining a design-rich, monochrome, graphical style as his base, returned to the act of simply "copying" the reality created by nature, marking the start of his second phase as Daido Moriyama.