Marks of Honour: Untitled [Days of Night]; Black Sun: The Eyes of Four. Roots and Innovation in Japanese Photography.

Original photographs - edition of 5 copies. Conceived for the Marks of Honour project, for which contemporary photographers were invited to create a new work in response to a book that played an important role in the development of their practice. Here, Morten Andersen has chosen Mark Holborn's Black Sun: The Eyes of Four, which is where he first encountered the work of Moriyama Daido. Black Sun was published to accompany an exhibition organised by the Alfred Stieglitz Center of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, and the Arts Council of Great Britain.

In the accompanying text, Andersen writes: 'My first meeting with Japanese photography and the work of Daido Moriyama was sometime in the late eighties when I came across the Black Sun issue of Aperture. It instantly took, the sharp light was blending and the darkness deeper than anything I'd seen before! Someone elses vision but also perfectly matching my own ideas. But in the young days the influences was many and I got a bit sceptic and found the heavy burning and the extreme contrast too much of an effect and looked in other directions...

A few years later, in 1991, I had a class with Carole Kismaric at ICP in New York. When she saw the book I had made in school she asked if I knew about the Japanese photographer with the famous dog picture or not, (names too difficult to remember...). But after some thinking it was of course the guy from Aperture, Moriyama!...

This book I made in honor to Japanese photography and to Daido Moriyama especially. The influence is strong but hopefully there is something of me in there too.'

Number 4 of 5 copies, signed in black pen in the bottom margin of the first photograph; 24 silver gelatin photographs (238 x 282 mm, 9¼ x 11 in), accordion-bound in yellow cloth-covered boards, facsimile text sheet, in the publisher's black cloth-covered board slipcase together with a copy of Black Sun: The Eyes of Four. Roots and Innovation in Japanese Photography. New York, Aperture, 1986. First edition; 4to (288 x 242 mm, 11¼ 9½ in); black & white photographs; red endpapers, black cloth-covered boards, titles stamped in silver on spine, and in blind on upper side, price-clipped photo-illustrated dust-jacket, printed in black, yellow, and blue, fine; 80pp.