Publisher/河出書房新社

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"Lettre a St.Loup. (New Edition)" is a collection of works by Daido Moriyama, one of Japan's most highly acclaimed photographers. After graduating from the design department of a technical high school, he worked as a commercial designer, and after working as an assistant to photographer Takeji Iwamiya and Eikoh Hosoe, he went independent. His activities since the 1960s continue to this day. This book is a new edition of "Lettre a St.Loup" published in 1990. The small French city of Saint-Loup is the place where primitive photography techniques were invented by Niepce in 1824. Moriyama also spoke of "the reality of Niepce's photography" in his dialogue with Takuma Nakahira in "Goodbye Photography" (1972). Furthermore, in the afterword, he writes, "It is an album of the various lights and things that I see every day as I live in 1990, and at the same time, it is also a personal letter in photographs that I send to Saint-Loup on that summer day." Whether it's ordinary cityscapes or objects captured as objets d'art, Moriyama's characteristic contrast of light and shadow is engraved in them.