Daido Moriyama, Meta Meta

Meta Meta

Daido Moriyama

Publisher
Akio Nagasawa Publishing
Year
2022
Specifications
Softcover
215 x 264 mm
92 pages
Signed and numbered, limited edition of 350
Silkscreen printed on canvas

“I discovered several dozen Polaroids the other day that I had totally forgotten about, in the lowermost drawer of my locker at my workplace. They are images I was assigned to shoot some years back, put away once they had served their purpose, and now, all of a sudden, they were excavated and once again exposed to the sunlight.

Having turned into undefined fragmentary images in pale, indistinct shades of sepia, they stunned me as I looked at them. Over the enormous time that had passed they had degenerated more and more, and what remained were mere ruins, faint traces of a time already separated from the person who shot them. They had transformed into something in another dimension altogether, and seemed to be shouting at me: look at us, and know all the candid details.”

More by Daido Moriyama

More from Akio Nagasawa Publishing

Spine Index, an archive of independent photobooks

FIND A
BOOK
/
/

ARCHIVE

Loading…

ABOUT

SpineIndex is a digital platform dedicated to independent photobooks, photography publications, design books, and self-published editions — the kind of work that rarely makes it into bookshop windows or mainstream catalogues. It exists to document, connect, and keep visible a world of publishers, artists, and makers who operate outside conventional distribution. A living reference for anyone who takes this territory seriously — collectors, researchers, students, and the simply curious.

#

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

V

W

X

Y

Z