Publisher/冬樹社

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"Light & Shadow (First Edition, Signed)" is a collection of works by Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama. It is one of Moriyama's major works from his early to mid-career and is a masterpiece alongside "Nippon Gekijo Shashincho" and "Shashin yo Sayonara" (Goodbye Photography). After "Shashin yo Sayonara," which rejected preconceived notions of photography and realism and declared a break from the conventional act of photography itself, Moriyama became stuck in his thoughts about what photography is and what the act of taking a picture is, and the balance between his thoughts and actions was disrupted, causing him to stop taking photographs for a time. At that time, he was reminded of the "landscape photographs" taken by Niépce, a pioneer of photographic technique, which captured light, and he returned to his roots with this work, "Light & Shadow," realizing that he should not cling to a style that tries to express his own thoughts, but rather simply capture the facts before him and the products of light and shadow. Just as Takuma Nakahira transitioned from a more avant-garde style to a more straightforward, vivid style, Moriyama, while maintaining a design-rich, monochrome, graphical style as his base, returned to the act of simply "reproducing" the reality created by nature—this is the starting work of his second phase as Daido Moriyama. Signed by the photographer .