Publisher/河出書房新社

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View from the Laboratory, a collection of works by Daido Moriyama, one of Japan's leading post-war photographers. This book is a homage to French inventor Nisefort Niepse, a pioneer of photographic technology. Moriyama actually visited France, and the existing house (maison) from the town where Niepse was born and raised. From the building where Niepce worked, to the windows and landscapes that Niepz would have seen, I shared the time and space with my camera. Moriyama had fallen into a slump since the mid-70s, could not take pictures, and had to rely on medicine, but without sticking to technology and style, the facts in front of him, the light and shadow of It was Niepus that gave me the opportunity to return to the starting point of the photograph, where I just need to grasp the product obediently. In the 1980s, he made a resurgence in "Light and Shadow" (1982), and in 1989 he officially announced the first homage to Nieps, "The Letter of Saint Lou". This time, it was a long-awaited trip that actually visited the birthplace of Niepce.