DAIDO MORIYAMA - HIKARI TO KAGE (森山大道 光と影 / Light and Shadow / Lumière et Ombre)

DAIDO MORIYAMA
HIKARI TO KAGE
(森山大道 光と影 / Light and Shadow / Lumière et Ombre)

Published by Toju-sha, 1982
Size: 29.7 x 22 cm
Approximately 170 pages
Soft cover
Language: Japanese
First edition
Good condition

Between 1979 and 1982, Moriyama stopped taking photographs. With HIKARI TO KAGE , he re-entered the fray even harder than before. The brooding grain was replaced by simple, high-contrast photographs of everyday scenes producing a strangely unsettling effect. Whether it's boots, jeans, high heels, a cow behind barbed wire, an aquarium, the sky with clouds, or grass... the same menacing effect... If ever someone needed proof that photography isn't objective, here it is. It clearly doesn't want to be. Terms like "inertia," "urban chaos," "estrangement," or "nihilism" come to mind. Moriyama was clearly influenced by Andy Warhol, William Klein, and Tomatsu Shomei. Printed in a small run, the book has become very rare.

(source British Museum)