Shashin yo Sayonara.

the central book of the provoke movement

Shashin yo Sayonara is the central book of the Provoke movement, born out of Moriyama's perceived limitations of Provoke's manifesto and photography as a medium. The resulting combination of images re-photographed from newspapers, magazines, television screens, other people's negatives, and his own pictures composed mainly of out-takes, scratched frames, and blurred images was sequenced by two editors at Shashin Hyoron-sha in a seemingly random order to create a visual manifestation of the overpowering density of life in modern Japan.

First edition, signed in black ink on title-page; 4to (230 x 181 mm, 9 x 7¼ in); black & white photographs printed in gravure, transcript of a conversation between Moriyama Daido and Nakahira Takuma; plain endpapers with small mark from bookseller's label, printed wrappers, black, grey, and blue, light reading crease, printed white dust jacket, text in black, blue, and grey, lightly rubbed and marked, light darkening to spine, an excellent copy in a custom drop spine box ; 308, [2]pp.

The Book of 101 Books pp218-221; The Photobook: A History I, pp298-9; Auer collection p543; For a New World to Come 172; The Japanese Photobook 1912-1990 256, pp344-5.