Comments on: Moriyama’s Northern already going OOP http://www.japanexposures.com/2009/09/06/moriyamas-northern-already-going-oop/ a personal introduction to Japanese photography Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:13:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: John http://www.japanexposures.com/2009/09/06/moriyamas-northern-already-going-oop/comment-page-1/#comment-1851 John Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:30:25 +0000 http://www.japanexposures.com/?p=3871#comment-1851 A well made rerelease of "Flash Up" would be a fine thing indeed. Especially if the pictures weren't spread across the gutter- and it was printed on the same paper stock as "Northern". A well made rerelease of “Flash Up” would be a fine thing indeed. Especially if the pictures weren’t spread across the gutter- and it was printed on the same paper stock as “Northern”.

]]> By: Peter Evans http://www.japanexposures.com/2009/09/06/moriyamas-northern-already-going-oop/comment-page-1/#comment-1850 Peter Evans Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:32:32 +0000 http://www.japanexposures.com/?p=3871#comment-1850 I hesitated before saying anything that might reduce your sales of "Northern", but having seen yet my third or fourth discrete pile of copies just this week -- yesterday, at Kinokuniya in south Shinjuku; today, in the basement of Parco in Shibuya -- I venture to suggest that it will be a couple of months before bookstores (other than those we know to avoid) will be calling this title "scarce" or "rare" (ha ha). Though the copies I've seen probably weren't signed. Moriyama's quite an industry, isn't he? I'm sure his work is Deeply Meaningful, but somehow I'm rarely tempted to buy. The Phaidon "55" and a couple of contributions to anthologies here and there are enough for me. Contrast Kurata Seiji. "Flash Up" is a bit pricy -- I wish I'd bought ten copies instead of just one when it came out -- and it's even received the benediction of Saints Martin and Gerry. An "Errata edition" would be far too discreet and civilized. When's Kurata going to have a bumper retrospective? Something with the page size of Erwitt's "Personal Best" is called for. I hesitated before saying anything that might reduce your sales of “Northern”, but having seen yet my third or fourth discrete pile of copies just this week — yesterday, at Kinokuniya in south Shinjuku; today, in the basement of Parco in Shibuya — I venture to suggest that it will be a couple of months before bookstores (other than those we know to avoid) will be calling this title “scarce” or “rare” (ha ha).

Though the copies I’ve seen probably weren’t signed.

Moriyama’s quite an industry, isn’t he? I’m sure his work is Deeply Meaningful, but somehow I’m rarely tempted to buy. The Phaidon “55″ and a couple of contributions to anthologies here and there are enough for me. Contrast Kurata Seiji. “Flash Up” is a bit pricy — I wish I’d bought ten copies instead of just one when it came out — and it’s even received the benediction of Saints Martin and Gerry. An “Errata edition” would be far too discreet and civilized. When’s Kurata going to have a bumper retrospective? Something with the page size of Erwitt’s “Personal Best” is called for.

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