Television 1975-1976.
Tokyo, Snap-Sha, 2001
In the mid-1970s, over two years, Mochizuki, who was interested in the '"life force" of television, the never-ending stream of images that defines our experience of the outside world,' took a series of photographs of his television screen using a complex analogue process, capturing both high and low culture, including pivotal mid-1970s television events such as the United States withdrawal from Saigon, the Apollo-Soyuz space mission, the Viking No.1 landing on Mars, the death of Mao Tse-Tung, the reopening of the Suez Canal, and Muhammad Ali vs Joe Frazier in Manila, together with local news and entertainment programming including a showing of Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai (1954).
First edition; folio (365 x 365 mm, 14¼ x 14¼ in); black-and-white photographs printed in offset, text in Japanese and English by Ikui Eikoh, design by Daisuke Suzuki; black endpapers, black cloth-covered boards, spine and front lettered in blind, publisher's white card slipcase with brown and black printed label, black sandpaper strips on sides to aide removal, fine; [80]pp.
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