A photo book by Japanese photographer, Masao Mochizuki. Mochizuki documented a year of Japanese television between 1975 and 1976, when television was not yet widely available. He created an archive of programs of historical importance as well as of popular interest, that had been unceasingly consumed over the twelve-month period. Overlaying a grid of thirty-five frames on the focusing screen of his camera, he released the shutter 35 times to a 6 × 6 cm plate until the entire plate was exposed, each finished plate containing 35 different images combined into a seamless grid of television screens. Mochizuki’s television montages reconstruct the fragments of broadcasts of that time into new images that directly connect to our emotions and memories. Television 1975-1976 contains a collection of 35 pictures, 6370 shots on 182 plates that have been selected for printing by the photographer.

On the luminescent screen of a 15-inch black-and-white television set in a darkroom, each frame of a program appears momently and then disappears as if it never existed, while history is repeated within the flashing lights of the television. Every single one of the 7000 exposures, of the 7000 bursts of euphoria was preserved in images. - Masao Mochizuki, from P.G.I. LETTER 175