The latest title in the silkscreen-printed cover, hand-bound series. This new edition revisits the legendary copy book that Daido Moriyama self-published for a printing show in 1974, and following the 2013 reprint it newly includes a large number of contact sheets that had never been reproduced before.

“New York is a city that I like a lot, perhaps a little bit more even than I like Tokyo. I've only been there one single time, but for me it isn't just a place somewhere in the world: it is the world itself. It certainly is a melting pot of people, concrete, steel and glass, but it is at once charged with an indefinable sort of tenderness and sadness. That tenderness and sadness lingers in a quite unique shape inside myself, which is why I sometimes think of the lights of that city like one reminisces about a lover. As I have a severe fear of flying, unfortunately I can't just hop on a plane whenever I feel like it. When I went there last time, I shot 1,500 frames with my half-frame camera, which ended up locked away mostly without being shown anywhere. It appeared to me that I'd like to try and collect them in an album that's like an album of a lover's pictures, and as a gallery offered to provide the setting for the production of that album, my dream finally came true. If Tokyo, the place on this side that is so close yet at once so irritatingly far, is my own country, then the other one is for me a far but familiar place on the other side: another country.” — Daido Moriyama, 1974