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In the 57th issue of “Record,” Daido Moriyama’s regular photography outlet, the Japanese master photographer shares a series of photos taken in Kamakura and other places near his home in Zushi to the south of Tokyo. In his signature black-and-white visual style, Moriyama isolates moments from ordinary street scenes, captures faces and figures up close, and follows his unending interest in sign boards, mannequins, and the vibrant chaos of life.

“A photograph is something that fragmentarily reflects the sensibility and sensitivity of a photographer in the very moment he or she releases the shutter, and the things in it instantly become the photographer’s own. But once it is reproduced and printed or exhibited, it disperses into the multifariously shaded folds of the audience’s gaze, where it establishes itself as a unique and hard new reality, and as a manifestation of some kind of memory, which again works as a mighty, enigmatic tool that connects past, present and future.
It is nothing more and nothing less than a camera, and we photographers can only take our hats off to Monsieur Nicéphore Niépce and thank him for inventing it.”
― from Daido Moriyama’s afterword