Daido Moriyama – Record no.50

Daido Moriyama confesses that, towards the end of 2021, he was becoming a little tired of publishing only his trademark street snaps in the ‘Record’ journals and had begun to consider doing other things, like female portraits.

One evening in December, he met a woman named Yaco and discovered that she displayed a unique kind of sensitivity. He immediately decided to make the next volume all about Yaco. Starting in the dusky Ginza and Yurakucho neighbourhoods in Tokyo, the photographer and his newfound muse took numerous pictures before moving inside to do a series of nude shots.

The striking results of that intimate evening appear in the 50th volume of “Record”.

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