Publisher/月曜社

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A Hunter (2019) is a collection of works by Daido Moriyama, one of Japan's leading postwar photographers. It is one of his early representative and timeless masterpieces, and is one of the books in the Daido Moriyama Masterpiece Republishing Series, which was republished by Getsuyosha from 2018 to 2019. The year this book was published in 1972 was when he released Goodbye Photography, which could be said to be the final destination after Provoke, in April, and this work was published in July of the same year. It was an important year that marked a turning point for Moriyama as well. After his debut work, Nippon Theater Photo Album (1968), which depicted folk and performing arts culture in Japan, he was inspired by Jack Kerouac's On the Road, which was recommended to him by Takuma Nakahira, and he took photos while traveling by car, and then a series in which, just as Kerouac got out of his car and sat down at his desk to pick up his pen, Moriyama also got out of his car, returned to the streets, took photos, and then locked himself in a darkroom to print them. While "Goodbye Photography" marked an end to traditional photography, "The Hunter" could be said to be a work in which Daido Moriyama pursued his own originality while still following the proper path as a photographer, resulting in the creation of his own distinctive style.