New Daido Moriyama video--digital workflow!

shadowfox said:
I was thinking similarly, Gabor.
I doubt he'll trust anyone to print for him in the darkroom, but since with digital he can see so many variations of the image quickly and conveniently, why not?
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I'm pretty sure he said (somewhere) that positives for exibition are done by full time printer, not himself.
Altho there is a point in documentary ("Near equal Daido Moriyama") where they praise his printing abilites, that one lab could not make same enlargement he did once of his positive he needed for exibition.
 
mix_ns said:
I'm pretty sure he said (somewhere) that positives for exibition are done by full time printer, not himself.
Altho there is a point in documentary ("Near equal Daido Moriyama") where they praise his printing abilites, that one lab could not make same enlargement he did once of his positive he needed for exibition.
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He wasn't even able to reproduce them
 
Thanks so much for bringing up this video, I have not seen it before.

I love watching him in action, and hearing him talk about his work. While not a model for life (his writings reveal a rather morose viewpoint about life and unfortunate bouts with depression and substance use), I love the way he works, and is dedicated to his vision. His images inspire me a lot as well, even though my work tends to look like the complete opposite of his.

He claims to have never bought a camera for himself; all of the cameras he uses have been given to him. That Nikon and Fuji have taken the place of his Ricoh GR's is intriguing. And speaking of the Fuji X10, the black and whites you can pull out of the raws are quite stunning, so it would work well with his black and white output.

And what would really interest me is if Nikon gives him a new A to use. I'd love to see the results of that!
 
Hello

I'm going to buy my first book of daido moriyama... and I'm thinking to pick world trough my eyes.
There are other books that you suggest me... Maybe some titles that for you are "must have"

Thanks
 
px09 said:
Hello

I'm going to buy my first book of daido moriyama... and I'm thinking to pick world trough my eyes.
There are other books that you suggest me... Maybe some titles that for you are "must have"

Thanks
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There are a lot of "must have" books but they're getting expensive.
Farewell Photography is a great book but it's brittle. Expect to pay $200 if it's signed. If cost really isn't an issue I would start off with "Memories of a Dog"
http://www.amazon.com/Memories-Dog-...id=1365430638&sr=1-24&keywords=daido+moriyama
 
I'm really enjoying Labyrinth. But be forewarned...you'll need a magnifying glass or photographic loop. It's a book of contact sheets, basically life-sized, and has lots of half-frame negatives.

That being said...it's fantastic. It's interesting to see his famous work next to nearly-identical shot he didn't select. That's the whole purpose of the book...to study how/why he chooses what he does.
 
As a side note...I'm enjoying shooting with a short zoom better than a fixed focal length for compact digital shooting, too (Sony RX100). I could see his attraction to compacts with high-quality zooms.
 
Great... Thank you...

Great... Thank you...

That was worth every "buffered" minute. Incredible man and really enjoyed his philosophical comments, all the way through. Could have watched much more.

Thanks for posting.

Lars
 
I keep coming back to Moriyama's work (and to a certain degree Anders Petersen and Jacob Aue Sobol) for inspiration. I'm still fighting this desire to take "pretty pictures" but I'm sure I'll get over it.

By the way, I had a color RX100 image printed at 16x20...it looks very good.
 
Someone knows if farewell/bye bye photography text at the end of the book has been translated?

Thank you
 
From what I gather, there was text in the original 1972 book-- a conversation between Daido and Takuma Nakahira.

There's no text in the 2006 edition.

There is Japanese text in the 2012 small-format reprint by Kodansha. I'm not sure if it's the Daido-Takuma text of the original (most likely), or something else.

However, the latter also has this short preface by Daido, in English:

"At the time, I was stuck and overwhelmed in that narrow gap between an excessive expectation of and excessive disappointment in photography. One could say I was just at the point of drowning in a sea of thought about my own photography.

But then, at last, in making this photobook, I had swam to shore and was released from this consuming sea.

I wanted to take photography to its very end and nullify it.
Just as the title implies, this book was meant to be my goodbye to photography.

But the one thing that was nullified was me and photography as though sneering at my attempt continues to be at my side (albeit aloofly so) even with the passage of forty years."

I don't know if the Daido-Takuma text is translated anywhere (I can't find it). But if you're interested in writing by Daido, translated into English, there's Daido's "Memories of a Dog" (book of autobiographical essays), and "Setting Sun" (an anthology of essays by great Japanese photographers, including Daido).
 
dash said:
From what I gather, there was text in the original 1972 book-- a conversation between Daido and Takuma Nakahira.

There's no text in the 2006 edition.

There is Japanese text in the 2012 small-format reprint by Kodansha. I'm not sure if it's the Daido-Takuma text of the original (most likely), or something else.

However, the latter also has this short preface by Daido, in English:

"At the time, I was stuck and overwhelmed in that narrow gap between an excessive expectation of and excessive disappointment in photography. One could say I was just at the point of drowning in a sea of thought about my own photography.

But then, at last, in making this photobook, I had swam to shore and was released from this consuming sea.

I wanted to take photography to its very end and nullify it.
Just as the title implies, this book was meant to be my goodbye to photography.

But the one thing that was nullified was me and photography as though sneering at my attempt continues to be at my side (albeit aloofly so) even with the passage of forty years."

I don't know if the Daido-Takuma text is translated anywhere (I can't find it). But if you're interested in writing by Daido, translated into English, there's Daido's "Memories of a Dog" (book of autobiographical essays), and "Setting Sun" (an anthology of essays by great Japanese photographers, including Daido).
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Thank you a lot :)
yes the text in the reprint is in japanese and i read online that it there is even in the original of 1972, that's why i asked :)
 
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