Signed. Moriyama visited New York for the first time in 1971, accompanying his friend Tadanori Yokoo who was preparing for a one-man exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. New York was the city of Moriyama's cultural heroes Andy Warhol, William Klein, and Weegee. He turned down Yokoo's offer to introduce him to Warhol (a decision he now regrets), preferring to maintain the illusion of adoration.

The trip lasted one month, and during this time, Moriyama took around 50 rolls of half-frame film, 72 images to a roll. A small selection of 10 photos from the series appeared in the Japanese periodical Asahi Camera in 1972. In 1974, he created his landmark photocopy book Another Country in New York, reproducing 80 of the photographs, for which he installed a Xerox machine in a Tokyo storefront for two weeks and assembled copies which were staple-bound into screenprinted covers on demand, selling around 100 copies.' 71-NY is an expanded version of Another Country in New York, and whilst discussing revisiting this New York work, he stated, 'I am completely uninterested in nostalgia. And although, in fact, it was 30 years ago that I made these pictures, to look at it another way, it was only 30 years ago, and, in essence, it is merely the raw material for a book I'm making now.'

First edition, signed in silver pen on title-page; 8vo (235 x 158 mm, 9¼ x 6¼ in); black-an-white photographs and contact sheets, letter from Moriyama to Andrew Roth, excerpt from James Baldwin's Another Country, interview with Moriyama, and an essay by Neville Wakefield, all in English and Japanese, design by Alexander Gelman; blue and white printed wrappers, die-cut black dust-jacket, publisher's cardboard slipcase with spine and upper side stamped in white, light wear, fine; [428]pp.

The Photobook: A History I, p301; The Open Book p396-7.