Daido Moriyama - Ango

Daido Moriyama
Ango

Published by Bookshop M, 2017
Size 24 x 16.5 cm
188 pages, 57 images
Hardcover
Language: English
ISBN 978-4-908647-09-3

“In the old days, before the capital moved from Kyoto to Tokyo, cherry trees were considered a frightening sight. No one considered them a sign of beauty. […] Without a trace of human life underneath, a cherry in full bloom becomes a frightening sight.”

The fifth installment in Match & Company's "Japanese Photography x Contemporary Literature" series. In "Daido Moriyama: Ango," Daido Moriyama's eerie cherry blossom photographs are set against Ango Sakaguchi's famous short story "In the Forest, Under the Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom. " Moriyama and Sakaguchi's "demonic beauty of cherry blossoms" is transformed into a pitch-black photobook of bottomless loneliness, emptiness, and dangerous seduction.