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MORIYAMA, Daido.

Shashin yo Sayonara [Bye Bye Photography].

Shashin yo Sayonara [Bye Bye Photography].

Stock Code 111556

Tokyo, Shashin Hyoron-sha, 1972

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Inscribed. Presentation copy, inscribed to Hilary Gerrard. 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, presentation copy inscribed by Moriyama in black ink on the title-page; 4to (230 x 181 mm, 9 x 7¼ in); black-and-white photographs printed in gravure, transcript of a conversation between Moriyama Daido and Nakahira Takuma, minor spotting to top edge; plain endpapers, ghost mark from bookseller's label, printed wrappers, black, grey, and blue, minor reading crease, printed white dust-jacket, text in black, blue, and grey, trivial wear along spine-fold, publisher's red order slip laid in, fine; 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.

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Provenance: Hilary Gerrard (author's inscription).

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