On the occasion of the release of Daido Moriyama’s book Memories of a Dog through Editions Delpire, today the gallery at 13 rue de l’Abbaye opens its new exhibition of the famous Japanese photographer.
The publication lets one discover or rediscover the universe of Daido Moriyama, one of the most key contemporary Japanese photographers. It gathers together the first volume of the artist’s autobiography published in 1980 and a selection of photographs from each of the “Records”, the personal magazine or logbook that Daido Moriyama kept in 1972- 73, then again from 2006 to today.
Here, Daido Moriyama evokes the major steps of his life in the form of an account made up up words and images. Through the trips and wanderings through places from his childhood, he tries, camera in hand, to re-appropriate the photos of his past and to relive the forgotten emotions, in order to show a reality that is really his.
On the side of the exhibition, there are fifty original photographs from Marrakech, 2015 (Record number 30) that are exhibited. This work was made during a year spent in Morocco. The photographer returned to Morocco for the first time in twenty-six years. He captured the spirit of the city of Marrakech, the unchanging nature of its rhythm, its subtle evolution and nuances, its souk, its populations, and the Atlas Mountains.
BOOK
Memories of a Dog
Daido Moriyama
Editions Delpire
Collection : Des images et des mots
Translation by Tomoko Oono
16,5 x 20 cm
150 photographs, 304 pages
30 €
EXHIBITION
Marrakech, 2015 (Record n° 30)
Daido Moriyama
From May 12th to June 11th, 2016
Galerie 13 rue de l’Abbaye
75006 Paris
France
http://www.moriyamadaido.com/
