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Daido Moriyama, one of Japan's leading postwar photographers, has published a collection of works entitled "View from the Laboratory". This book is a homage to the pioneer of photography, the French inventor Nicéphore Niépce. Moriyama actually visited France, visiting Niépce's town where he was born and raised, his existing maison, and even the buildings where Niépce worked, as well as the scenery from the windows that Niépce would have seen, capturing the time and space on camera. Since the mid-1970s, Moriyama had been in a slump, unable to take photographs and having to rely on medication, but Niépce gave him the opportunity to return to the origins of photography, which is to simply capture the facts in front of you, the products of light and shadow, without clinging to technique or style. He made a comeback in the 1980s with "Light and Shadow" (1982), and in 1989 he released his first official homage to Niépce, "Letters of Saint-Loup". This time, it was a long-awaited trip to actually visit Niépce's birthplace.