Publisher/月曜社

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A photo book "K" by Daido Moriyama, one of Japan's leading photographers. After dropping out of Kogei High School, he has been working as an assistant to a commercial designer in Osaka since the mid-1950s. Moriyama headed for photography in 1960 and entered the studio of Takeji Iwamiya, a leading figure in the Kansai photography world. After that, he moved to Tokyo and became an assistant to Eikoh Hosoe. He has been active as a photographer since the latter half of the 1960s, met Takuma Nakahira and participated in "Provoke", and since the 1970s he has left a masterpiece photo book such as "Hunter" and "Goodbye Photographs". This book is a collection of photographs taken in 2017. This book, which was all taken with a digital camera, is a snapshot of the clutter and obscureness of a city that is typical of Moriyama, and is a collection of photographs "in pursuit of various" K = Kage "fragments" (from the publisher). At the end of the book is a column "Origin and Current Point: A Journey to Niepce / Today's Three Animals" written by Moriyama. "Dog should go to the red-light district, cat should go to the back alley, insects should be in the red-light district. I have no choice but to feel that it is all about the meaning of taking a picture "(from" Today's Three Animals ").