Publisher/写真評論社

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"Goodbye Photography," a photobook by Daido Moriyama, one of Japan's leading postwar photographers. Following "Nippon Gekijo Shashincho (1968)," this is Moriyama's second solo photobook, and it is widely considered one of the best books from the turbulent 1960s and 70s of Japanese photography. While influenced by the styles of various pioneers, Moriyama continued to search for his own style as a photographer throughout the 1960s, and after joining the provocative group "Provoke" with Takuma Nakahira and others, he continued to struggle. In this context, he directly rejected the "reality of photography" as seen in Niépce and newspaper photography, and created an unprecedented avant-garde collection of works composed of unprincipled copies from television and scraps of negatives with empty shutters. "Photography that has not a single doubt about what photography is"—this feeling of aversion and farewell to photography is strongly conveyed in the "illustrations" and "title." The interview with Takuma Nakahira at the end of the book is also very interesting.