
Reflection and Refraction
- Publisher
- AsiaOne Books
- Year
- 2013
- ISBN
- 9789881531759
- Specifications
- paperback
8.5 x 10 in
176 pages
limited edition of 1,500 copies
Edited by Hisako Motoo
Foreword by Daido Moriyama, Hisako Motoo, Satoshi Machiguchi, Blues Wong
Compiles Auto-portrait and Sunflower, previously published by MMM in 2010 and 2011
Reflection and Refraction is a retrospective collection of self-portraits and floral works shot by the renowned Daido Moriyama over the course of four decades. Having witnessed the startling transformation of postwar Japan, Moriyama possesses a dark, intense eroticism and an appreciation for the tragic. His black-and-white photographs form a cumulative record — in the language of the everyday — of Japan's often contradictory social fabric. Underpinned by his forceful points of view, Moriyama's extraordinary 'street snap' style brings a loose and casual aesthetic to scenes that would otherwise appear uninteresting, occupying a unique space between the objective and the subjective, the illusory and the real.