Searching for a minimum medium in which to print pictures made in everyday life and show them by hand to those around him, Daido Moriyama launched the self-published journal Record in 1972. Publication was suspended in May of the following year, when the fifth issue appeared, and was revived in 2006; it continues today.

This is a digest of the journal from number one to number thirty. The images are reproduced at their original size, the afterwords written by the maker himself are included, and the total number of pictures comes to two hundred and eighty.