a personal introduction to Japanese photography
Japan Exposures is pleased to add small Japanese publisher Super Labo’s books into the fold of publications being sold in the Japan Exposures bookstore. While we don’t shy away from established, mainstream publishers, what really tickles our book nook’s chin are the small publishers carrying on the tradition of the Japanese photobook....
If you haven’t visited photographer Alec Soth’s new weblog yet, perhaps you should. On there I came across a post on the amount of coverage post-9/11 as the most photographed event in history. It is odd that when there is any sort of event nowadays, people have the urge to get the camera out and take pictures of it, be it of a catastrophe...
Daido Moriyama, wedding photographer
Mr. Moriyama and were guests at the wedding of a mutual friend in June- the groom, an editor at Nippon Camera, is a fine photographer in his own right with an excellent photobook that was published by Seigensha back in 2007.
I had heard recently that Moriyama quit shooting Ricoh cameras, and sure enough he had a small, basic little Nikon digital compact on him throughout the evening. Since most of the guests and both of the newlyweds were all photographers it was quite nice when the groom introduced this photographic legend to the room, and asked for some words of advice for photography and life. Moriyama delivered an impromptu yet classy speech which, like the shot above, was well documented visually.
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